CVE Alert: CVE-2025-53369
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-53369
Short Description is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. In version 4.0.0, short descriptions are not properly sanitized before being inserted as HTML using mw.util.addSubtitle, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.1.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/3/2025, 8:15:23 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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