CVE-2025-53370 (GCVE-0-2025-53370)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-03 19:45
Modified
2025-07-07 19:01
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
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. 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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/c85a40bddc8651fff66df83a72debddcb34f0521Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/releases/tag/v3.4.0Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-prmv-7r8c-794gExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen Version: >= 65a7ffd927467c8c3557146d1ac6de62b0369b6c, < c85a40bddc8651fff66df83a72debddcb34f0521
Version: >= 1.9.4, < 3.4.0
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