CVE-2025-49578: starcitizentools/citizen-skin allows stored XSS in user registration date message
Various date messages returned by Language::userDate are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM.
References
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/64cb5d7ab3a6dc0381fae54b31e8fc4afadc8beb
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd
- github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49578
Code Behaviors & Features
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