VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-53369

CVSS score8.6 HIGH
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-79

Primary references