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CVE-2025-53479

CheckUser: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Special:CheckUser via unsanitized internationalized message PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The CheckUser extension’s Special:CheckUser interface is vulnerable to reflected XSS via the rev-deleted-user message. This message is rendered without proper escaping, making it possible to inject JavaScript through the uselang=x-xss language override mechanism. This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser extension: from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Wikimedia Foundation / Mediawiki - CheckUser extensionaffected 1.42.x before 1.42.7; affected 1.43.x before 1.43.2

CWE

CWE-79

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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