What is CVE-2020-10959?

CVE-2020-10959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in MediaWiki, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-06-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-10959?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Open Redirect in MediaWiki

CVE-2020-10959

resources/src/mediawiki.page.ready/ready.js in MediaWiki before 1.35 allows remote attackers to force a logout and external redirection via HTML content in a MediaWiki page.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.014 (70.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Mediawiki
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10959?: CVE-2020-10959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in MediaWiki, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-06-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-10959?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.