CVE-2025-53370 (GCVE-0-2025-53370)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 19:45 – Updated: 2025-07-07 19:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Citizen stored XSS vulnerability through short descriptions
Summary
Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. From versions 1.9.4 to before 3.4.0, short descriptions set via the ShortDescription extension are inserted as raw HTML by the Citizen skin, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.0.
Severity
8.6 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-07 18:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-ski… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-ski… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-ski… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StarCitizenTools | mediawiki-skins-Citizen |
Affected:
>= 65a7ffd927467c8c3557146d1ac6de62b0369b6c, < c85a40bddc8651fff66df83a72debddcb34f0521
Affected: >= 1.9.4, < 3.4.0 |
guessed |
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