CVE-2025-53488 - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/wikihiero/+/1166018
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396524

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00029}`	epss `{'score': 0.00031}`

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - WikiHiero Extension allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mediawiki - WikiHiero Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Title		Stored XSS in WikiHiero
Weaknesses		CWE-79
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/wikihiero/+/1166018 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396524

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-07-07T18:44:40.031Z

Updated: 2025-07-10T23:34:04.537Z

Reserved: 2025-06-30T15:36:34.119Z

Link: CVE-2025-53488

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-08T14:33:02.505Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-07T19:15:23.413

Modified: 2025-07-08T18:15:41.437

Link: CVE-2025-53488

Redhat

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