CVE-2025-53480

The CheckUser extension’s Special:Investigate page has a vulnerability in the Account information tab, where specific internationalized messages are rendered without proper escaping. Attackers can exploit this by appending ?uselang=x-xss to the URL, causing reflected XSS when the UI renders affected message keys. This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Configurations

No configuration.

History

08 Jul 2025, 21:15

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.4

08 Jul 2025, 15:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-07-08 15:15

Updated : 2025-07-08 21:15


NVD link : CVE-2025-53480

Mitre link : CVE-2025-53480

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-53480


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Products Affected

No product.

CWE
CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')