CVE-2025-21612

Cross-site Scripting in TabberTransclude in Extension:TabberNeue

Published: Jan 6, 2025Updated: Aug 26, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-79

8.6HIGH

Description

TabberNeue is a MediaWiki extension that allows the wiki to create tabs. Prior to 2.7.2, TabberTransclude.php doesn't escape the user-supplied page name when outputting, so an XSS payload as the page name can be used here. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.2.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:LAvailability

Low

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Weaknesses

CWE-79 CWE-80

Affected Products

Packagist

package-ecosystem

starcitizentools/tabber-neue

OSS Libraries

StarCitizenTools

oss-projectaka mediawiki-extensions-shortdescription, mediawiki-skins-citizen, mediawiki-extensions-tabberneue

mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeueOn-prem

Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Execution

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References

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/d8c3db4e5935476e496d979fb01f775d3d3282e6

github.com

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/f229cab099c69006e25d4bad3579954e481dc566

github.com

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/security/advisories/GHSA-4x6x-8rm8-c37j

github.com

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