Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. From versions 1.9.4 to before 3.4.0, short descriptions set via the ShortDescription extension are inserted as raw HTML by the Citizen skin, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.0.
History

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

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Description Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. From versions 1.9.4 to before 3.4.0, short descriptions set via the ShortDescription extension are inserted as raw HTML by the Citizen skin, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.0.
Title Citizen stored XSS vulnerability through short descriptions
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: 2025-07-03T19:45:32.163Z

Updated: 2025-07-03T19:45:32.163Z

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

Link: CVE-2025-53370

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-07-03T20:15:23.893

Modified: 2025-07-03T20:15:23.893

Link: CVE-2025-53370

cve-icon Redhat

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