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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2025-61638

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki, Wikimedia Foundation Parsoid. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/parser/Sanitizer.Php, src/Core/Sanitizer.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1; Parsoid: from * before 0.16.6, 0.20.4, 0.21.1.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:15 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2025-61638

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Feb 2026, 00:16 UTC

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki, Wikimedia Foundation Parsoid. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/parser/Sanitizer.Php, src/Core/Sanitizer.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1; Parsoid: from * before 0.16.6, 0.20.4, 0.21.1.

osv:CVE-2025-61638
Complete source record
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