Vulnerabilites related to StarCitizenTools - mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription
CVE-2025-53369 (GCVE-0-2025-53369)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-03 19:57
Modified
2025-07-03 20:11
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StarCitizenTools | mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription |
Version: >= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4 Version: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1 |
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CVE-2022-21710 (GCVE-0-2022-21710)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-24 19:45
Modified
2025-04-22 18:32
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
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References
Impacted products
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| StarCitizenTools | mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription |
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