GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-prmv-7r8c-794g Citizen vulnerable to Stored XSS through short descriptions

HIGH Published 2025-07-03 Modified 2025-07-03 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-53370
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
starcitizentools/citizen-skin
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2025-07-03

Affected packages

• Packagist starcitizentools/citizen-skin: >= 1.9.4, < 3.4.0 → fixed in 3.4.0

Description

Summary Short descriptions set via the ShortDescription extension are inserted as raw HTML by the Citizen skin, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. Details The `shortdesc` property, which contains unsanitized user input, is retrieved from the OutputPage and returned as the tagline: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/includes/Components/CitizenComponentPageHeading.php#L249-L251 The tagline is then provided to the template data: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/includes/Components/CitizenComponentPageHeading.php#L270-L275 The template then inserts the tagline into raw HTML without doing any escaping: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/0d8a44011e02a081618359a1e90f462478e807aa/templates/PageHeading.mustache#L12 PoC 1. Enable Citizen and ShortDescription 2. Add `{{SHORTDESC:&lt;img src="" onerror="alert('citizen shortdescription xss')"&gt;}}` to a page 3. Visit the page Impact Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-53370 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