CVE-2025-49576

Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

Published Jun 12, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-18206 starcitizentools/citizen-skin allows stored XSS in search no result messages
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g starcitizentools/citizen-skin allows stored XSS in search no result messages
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Starcitizen.tools
Starcitizen.tools citizen
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:starcitizen.tools:citizen:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*
Vendors & Products Starcitizen.tools
Starcitizen.tools citizen
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00037}

epss

{'score': 0.0004}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jun 12, 2025, 7:05 PM
Reserved
Jun 6, 2025, 3:44 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jun 12, 2025, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:31 AM