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CVE-2025-53369

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-53369 is a high-severity vulnerability in the MediaWiki Short Description extension (version 4.0.0) that allows any user to inject arbitrary HTML into the DOM through unsanitized short descriptions. This flaw, categorized as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), carries a CVSS score of 8.6, indicating a critical risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, with moderate impact on integrity and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the vulnerability has been patched in version 4.0.1 of the extension.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
StarCitizenToolsMediawiki-Extensions-ShortDescription
>= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: starcitizentools/short-descriptionFixed in: 4.0.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqfhigh

Citizen Short Description stored XSS vulnerability through wikitext

Jul 3, 2025

References

github.com / StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8
github.com / StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf