CVE-2025-53369

State: PUBLISHED · Published: 2025-07-03 · Updated: 2025-07-03 · Assigner: GitHub_M

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.

CWE

CWE-79 — CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected

StarCitizenTools / mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription — v=>= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4 [affected]; v=>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1 [affected]

CVSS

3.1 score=8.6 severity=HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

References

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8 x_refsource_MISC

Source

cvelistV5-main/cves/2025/53xxx/CVE-2025-53369.json