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Server side cross-site scripting In mediawiki

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.37.3 and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. The contributions-title, used on Special:Contributions, is used as page title without escaping. Hence, in a non-default configuration where a username contains HTML entities, it won't be escaped.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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