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CVE-2025-53368
Citizen is vulnerable to stored XSS attack in the legacy search bar
High8.6EPSS 0.35%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. From versions 1.9.4 to before 3.4.0, page descriptions are inserted into raw HTML without proper sanitization by the Citizen skin when using the old search bar. Any user with page editing privileges can insert cross-site scripting (XSS) payloads into the DOM for other users who are searching for specific pages. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
StarCitizenTools · mediawiki-skins-Citizen
- affected >= 1.9.4, < 3.4.0
- affected >= b2bd79196db1153d0bc1bd51a646d957cbdf4aec, < aedbceb3380bb48db6b59e272fc187529c71c8ca
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagiststarcitizentools/citizen-skinGHSA-rq6g-6g94-jfr4 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-rq6g-6g94-jfr4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/aedbceb3380bb48db6b59e272fc187529c71c8ca (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/releases/tag/v3.4.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rq6g-6g94-jfr4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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