CVE-2025-53370
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 32 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–8.6
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affected products (11)
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- StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen65a7ffd927467c8c3557146d1ac6de62b0369b6c, → c85a40bddc86…enisa_euvdEU
advisories (2)
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- WID-SEC-W-2025-1525MediaWiki Extensions und Skins: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-07-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in MediaWiki ausnutzen, um SQL-Injection- und XSS-Angriffe durchzuführen, Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen oder sich unbefugt höhere Berechtigungen zu verschaffen.
- GHSA-prmv-7r8c-794gCitizen vulnerable to Stored XSS through short descriptions2025-07-03ghsa · osvUS
### Summary Short descriptions set via the [ShortDescription extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortDescription) are inserted as raw HTML by the Citizen skin, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. ### Details The `shortdesc` property, which contains unsanitized user input, is retrieved from the OutputPage and returned as the tagline: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/includes/Components/CitizenComponentPageHeading.php#L249-L251 The tagline is then provided to the template data: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/includes/Components/CitizenComponentPageHeading.php#L270-L275 The template then inserts the tagline into raw HTML without doing any escaping: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/templates/PageHeading.mustache#L12 ### PoC 1. Enable Citizen and ShortDescription 2. Add `{{SHORTDESC:<img src="" onerror="alert('citizen shortdescription xss')">}}` to a page 3. Visit the page   ### Impact Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.
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references (11)
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- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/c85a40bddc8651fff66df83a72debddcb34f0521cnnvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/releases/tag/v3.4.0cnnvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-prmv-7r8c-794gcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53370cnnvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/c85a40bddc8651fff66df83a72debddcb34f0521enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/releases/tag/v3.4.0enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-prmv-7r8c-794genisa_euvd
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