CVE-2025-53369: Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
Short descriptions are not properly sanitized by the ShortDescription before being inserted as HTML using mw.util.addSubtitle, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page.
References
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53369
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