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Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-49576
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 17:51 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Jun 2025, 18:50 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2025-49576
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49576",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-49576",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
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      ],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:30.891873175Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49576",
        "https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd",
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      ],
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      }
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 498031,
  "published_at": "2025-06-12T18:50:55.931+00:00"
}