CVE-2025-49576 (GCVE-0-2025-49576)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-12 18:50 – Updated: 2025-06-12 19:05
VLAI
Title
Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages
Summary
Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. The citizen-search-noresults-title and citizen-search-noresults-desc system messages are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen Affected: >= a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab, < 93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd
Affected: >= 2.31.0, < 3.3.1
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