The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.
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Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Description The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.
Title Star Citizen EmbedVideo Extension Stored XSS through wikitext caused by usage of non-reserved data attributes
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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-25T14:19:53.153Z

Reserved: 2025-09-22T14:34:03.471Z

Link: CVE-2025-59839

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-25T14:19:40.795Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-25T14:15:46.570

Modified: 2025-09-25T15:16:14.560

Link: CVE-2025-59839

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