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Status published
High
CVE-2025-53369
Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 3rd, 2025
Last Modified:
July 3rd, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L