StarCitizenWiki Extension Embed Video: Stored XSS via unsanitized service name in exception text
### Summary When passing an unknown service name to embedvideo, an error message is rendered containing the invalid service name. The service name is not sanitized and can contain HTML. ### Details There is a hardcoded list of allowed services in a switch statement inside `EmbedServiceFactory#newFromName` [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedService/EmbedServiceFactory.php#L105). When the service name is not known, an exception is thrown with the service name injected into the message via sprintf [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedService/EmbedServiceFactory.php#L286). This message is not sanitized and is marked as isHtml [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedVideo.php#L303-L311). Similarly with `{{evl:` [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedVideo.php#L177-L183). ### PoC ``` // Must be on a page, not on ExpandTemplates {{#ev:<img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>|dQw4w9WgXcQ}} {{#evl:id=dummy|service=<img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>}} ``` ### Impact Stored XSS that allows arbitrary Javascript/HTML insertion on any page that a user can edit. It requires no interaction and executes in the wiki origin for every visitor to the page.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-55690US | — | — | ||
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. Pri… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideoPACKAGE
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/commit/9215564bf28a0ceb40be550a55ab78efc0accc56WEB
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/releases/tag/v4.1.0WEB
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-c29q-5xm7-5p62WEB
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