Vulnerability · Published Jun 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-49576Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in mediawiki-skins-Citizen from StarCitizenTools. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. The citizen-search-noresults-title and citizen-search-noresults-desc system messages are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Packagist	starcitizentools/citizen-skin	3.3.1	GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
StarCitizenTools	mediawiki-skins-Citizen	>= a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab, < 93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd>= 2.31.0, < 3.3.1

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab x_refsource_MISC