CVE-2025-53487
Description
The ApprovedRevs extension for MediaWiki is vulnerable to stored XSS in multiple locations where system messages are inserted into raw HTML without proper escaping. Attackers can exploit this by injecting JavaScript payloads via the uselang=x-xss language override, which causes crafted message keys to be rendered unescaped.
This issue affects Mediawiki - ApprovedRevs extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
CWE
- CWE-79 — CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Affected
- Wikimedia Foundation / Mediawiki - ApprovedRevs extension — v=1.39.x <1.39.13 [affected]; v=1.42.x <1.42.7 [affected]; v=1.43.x <1.43.2 [affected]
CVSS
- (none)
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394383
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ifcab085111e7898da485a5e2ae287fee4e6d167b
Source
cvelistV5-main/cves/2025/53xxx/CVE-2025-53487.json