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CVE-2025-53369 (GCVE-0-2025-53369)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 19:57 – Updated: 2025-07-03 20:11
VLAI
Title
Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
Summary
Short Description is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. In version 4.0.0, short descriptions are not properly sanitized before being inserted as HTML using mw.util.addSubtitle, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.1.
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 20:10 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-extensions-ShortDescription Affected: >= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4
Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1
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