GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-c29q-5xm7-5p62 StarCitizenWiki Extension Embed Video: Stored XSS via unsanitized service name in exception text
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-55690
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- starcitizenwiki/embedvideo
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79, CWE-80
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-19
Affected packages
• Packagist starcitizenwiki/embedvideo: < 4.1.0 → fixed in 4.1.0
Description
Summary
When passing an unknown service name to embedvideo, an error message is rendered containing the invalid service name. The service name is not sanitized and can contain HTML.
Details
There is a hardcoded list of allowed services in a switch statement inside `EmbedServiceFactory#newFromName` here. When the service name is not known, an exception is thrown with the service name injected into the message via sprintf here. This message is not sanitized and is marked as isHtml here. Similarly with `{{evl:` here.
PoC
```
// Must be on a page, not on ExpandTemplates
{{#ev:|dQw4w9WgXcQ}}
{{#evl:id=dummy|service=}}
```
Impact
Stored XSS that allows arbitrary Javascript/HTML insertion on any page that a user can edit. It requires no interaction and executes in the wiki origin for every visitor to the page.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-55690 The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips… vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-c29q-5xm7-5p62 web
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/commit/9215564bf28a0ceb40be550a55ab78efc0accc56 web
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo package
- https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/releases/tag/v4.1.0 web