CVE-2025-53502 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension: 1.39.X, 1.42.X, 1.43.X.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00074.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-19888	Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension: 1.39.X, 1.42.X, 1.43.X.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/FeaturedFeeds/+/1149742
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392279

History

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - FeaturedFeeds Extension: 1.39.X, 1.42.X, 1.43.X.
Title		HTML injection in FeaturedFeeds
Weaknesses		CWE-20
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/FeaturedFeeds/+/1149742 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392279

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-07-03T16:11:07.054Z

Updated: 2025-07-10T23:37:56.408Z

Reserved: 2025-06-30T15:36:41.721Z

Link: CVE-2025-53502

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-03T17:54:19.232Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-03T17:15:40.250

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

Link: CVE-2025-53502

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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