CVE-2025-49576

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.

CVSS v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.2 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd	Patch
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab	Patch
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g	Exploit Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:starcitizen.tools:citizen:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-06-12 19:15

Updated : 2025-08-22 18:56

NVD link : CVE-2025-49576

Mitre link : CVE-2025-49576

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-49576

JSON object : View

Products Affected

starcitizen.tools

citizen

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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