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CVE-2025-53480

The CheckUser extension’s Special:Investigate page has a vulnerability in the Account information tab, where specific internationalized messages are rendered without proper escaping. Attackers can exploit this by appending ?uselang=x-xss to the URL, causing reflected XSS when the UI renders affected message keys.

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 8, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 16, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-53480
  • 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