CVE-2025-53496

MEDIUM

Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - MediaSearch Extension <1.42.7/1.43...

Title source: llm

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - MediaSearch Extension allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mediawiki - MediaSearch Extension: from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396946

Various Sources

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/MediaSearch/+/1166030

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 6.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

Wikimedia Foundation/Mediawiki - MediaSearch Extension 1.42.x - 1.42.7

Wikimedia Foundation/Mediawiki - MediaSearch Extension 1.43.x - 1.43.2

Published Jul 07, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026