CVE-2025-59839 (GCVE-0-2025-59839)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-25 13:56
Modified
2025-09-25 14:19
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StarCitizenWiki | mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo |
Version: <= 4.0.0 |
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