CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-53478
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-07-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The CheckUser extension’s Special:Investigate interface is vulnerable to reflected XSS due to improper escaping of certain internationalized system messages rendered on the “IPs and User agents” tab.
This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I3a1e21b6800ff4d813a33ee9fe9b7ccf070b6b2e gerrit.wikimedia.org
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394692 phabricator.wikimedia.org