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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-19899 Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
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Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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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.
Title Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-07-03T20:11:01.943Z

Reserved: 2025-06-27T12:57:16.121Z

Link: CVE-2025-53369

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-03T20:10:51.760Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-03T20:15:23.737

Modified: 2025-07-08T16:19:11.700

Link: CVE-2025-53369

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