CVE-2025-59839 (GCVE-0-2025-59839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-25 13:56 – Updated: 2025-09-25 14:19
VLAI
Title
Star Citizen EmbedVideo Extension Stored XSS through wikitext caused by usage of non-reserved data attributes
Summary
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. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-25 14:19 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 7771 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
StarCitizenWiki mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo Affected: <= 4.0.0
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