Citizen CVE-2025-49578

| EUVD-2025-18205 MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
6.5
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Mar 14, 2026 - 21:20 vuln.today
EUVD ID Assigned
Mar 14, 2026 - 21:20 euvd
EUVD-2025-18205
Patch released
Mar 14, 2026 - 21:20 nvd
Patch available
PoC Detected
Aug 22, 2025 - 18:48 vuln.today
Public exploit code
CVE Published
Jun 12, 2025 - 19:15 nvd
MEDIUM 6.5

DescriptionNVD

Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. 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. This impacts wikis where a group has the editinterface but not the editsitejs user right. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.

Analysis

Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. 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. This impacts wikis where a group has the editinterface but not the editsitejs user right. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.

Technical ContextAI

Cross-site scripting (XSS) allows injection of client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users due to insufficient output encoding.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available — apply it immediately. Encode all user-supplied output contextually (HTML, JS, URL). Implement Content Security Policy (CSP) headers. Use HTTPOnly and Secure cookie flags.

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CVE-2025-49578 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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