Bug 1909237 (CVE-2020-35479)

Summary: CVE-2020-35479 mediawiki: potential XSS via the month messages such as MediaWiki:january through MediaWiki:december outputting Block Logs
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aos-bugs, axel.thimm, bmontgom, eparis, jburrell, jokerman, mike, nstielau, puiterwijk, shurley, sponnaga
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Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.31.11, mediawiki 1.35.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 02:59:13 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1909238, 1910209    
Bug Blocks: 1909242    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-18 17:12:51 UTC 
MediaWiki before 1.35.1 allows XSS via BlockLogFormatter.php. Language::translateBlockExpiry itself does not escape in all code paths. For example, the return of Language::userTimeAndDate is is always unsafe for HTML in a month value. This affects MediaWiki 1.12.0 and later.

References:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268938
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-18 17:13:07 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1909238]
Comment 3 Sam Fowler 2020-12-23 06:26:17 UTC 
External References:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html