SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434249

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An issue was discovered in MediaWiki 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. LogEventList::getFiltersDesc is
insecurely using message text to build options names for an HTML multi-select field. The relevant code
should use escaped() instead of text(). (CVE-2020-25815)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f58-vf6g-6p8x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434249

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25815

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25815

cwe: CWE-79