CVE-2025-53491 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - FlaggedRevs Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - FlaggedRevs Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs/+/1165929
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394397

History

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - FlaggedRevs Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - FlaggedRevs Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Title		XSS in FlaggedRevs
Weaknesses		CWE-79
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs/+/1165929 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394397

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-07-07T16:17:29.771Z

Updated: 2025-07-07T19:19:14.568Z

Reserved: 2025-06-30T15:36:34.119Z

Link: CVE-2025-53491

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-07T19:19:09.575Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-07-07T17:15:29.267

Modified: 2025-07-07T20:15:27.767

Link: CVE-2025-53491

Redhat

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