CVE-2025-53369

Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext

Published: Jul 3, 2025Updated: Jul 8, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-79

8.6HIGH

Description

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.

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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

Affected Products

StarCitizenTools

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

mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescriptionOn-prem

Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

Packagist

package-ecosystem

starcitizentools/short-description

OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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2 techniques

Execution

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References

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8

github.com

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53369

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