CVE-2025-49576

Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

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

StarCitizenTools · mediawiki-skins-Citizen

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 35th percentile

Published

2025-06-12

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g

Security advisories

• advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g
• StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry