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CVE-2025-53478

The CheckUser extension’s Special:Investigate interface is vulnerable to reflected XSS due to improper escaping of certain internationalized system messages rendered on the “IPs and User agents” tab.

This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

  • Published: Jul 7, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 16, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-53478
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.4
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N