CVE-2025-53368 (GCVE-0-2025-53368)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 19:34 – Updated: 2025-07-03 19:50
VLAI
Title
Citizen is vulnerable to stored XSS attack in the legacy search bar
Summary
Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. From versions 1.9.4 to before 3.4.0, page descriptions are inserted into raw HTML without proper sanitization by the Citizen skin when using the old search bar. Any user with page editing privileges can insert cross-site scripting (XSS) payloads into the DOM for other users who are searching for specific pages. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.0.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-03 19:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen Affected: >= 1.9.4, < 3.4.0
Affected: >= b2bd79196db1153d0bc1bd51a646d957cbdf4aec, < aedbceb3380bb48db6b59e272fc187529c71c8ca
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