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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-27 | Published 2025-07-03 | Updated 2025-07-03 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Problem types

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

>= 05f6c6824f8f37dcc2d51cf6df4e7a09bea2196c, < 2c18bd21c5de53c336f55b6ff42f2983ea5796b4
affected

>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1
affected

References

github.com/...iption/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf

github.com/...ommit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8

cve.org (CVE-2025-53369)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-53369)

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