GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-4c2h-67qq-vm87 Citizen skin vulnerable to stored XSS through multiple system messages
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-49575
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- starcitizentools/citizen-skin
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2025-06-11
Affected packages
• Packagist starcitizentools/citizen-skin: >= 2.4.2, < 3.3.1 → fixed in 3.3.1
Description
Summary
Multiple system messages are inserted into the CommandPaletteFooter as raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM.
Details
The messages are retrieved using the `plain()` output mode: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/072e4365e9084e4b153eac62d3666566c06f5a49/resources/skins.citizen.commandPalette/components/CommandPaletteFooter.vue#L61-L66
`currentTip` is set to one of these messages: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/072e4365e9084e4b153eac62d3666566c06f5a49/resources/skins.citizen.commandPalette/components/CommandPaletteFooter.vue#L69
`currentTip` is inserted as raw HTML (`vue/no-v-html` should *not* be ignored here): https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/072e4365e9084e4b153eac62d3666566c06f5a49/resources/skins.citizen.commandPalette/components/CommandPaletteFooter.vue#L3-L4
PoC
1. Edit `citizen-command-palette-tip-commands`, `citizen-command-palette-tip-users`, `citizen-command-palette-tip-namespace` and `citizen-command-palette-tip-templates` to `` (script tags don't work here due to the way the HTML is inserted)
2. Open the command palette
Impact
This impacts wikis where a group has the `editinterface` but not the `editsitejs` user right.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-49575 Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-4c2h-67qq-vm87 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49575 advisory
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/4fa69e1d062dca7e407cc0530cf1da3e2baaf0b5 web
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/54c8717d45ce1594918f11cb9ce5d0ccd8dfee65 web
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd web
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen package