Medium
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
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-49576
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- 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 sourcePublished 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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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:30.891873175Z",
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