CVE-2025-49578 (GCVE-0-2025-49578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-12 18:50
Modified
2025-06-12 19:12
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. Various date messages returned by `Language::userDate` are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM. This impacts wikis where a group has the `editinterface` but not the `editsitejs` user right. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen Version: >= 64cb5d7ab3a6dc0381fae54b31e8fc4afadc8beb, < 93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd
Version: >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.1
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