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.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-12 19:04 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7766 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen Affected: >= a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab, < 93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd
Affected: >= 2.31.0, < 3.3.1
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