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CVE-2025-59839

Summary

The EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext.

Details

The attributes of an iframe are populated with the value of an unreserved data attribute (data-iframeconfig) that can be set via wikitext: https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/440fb331a84b2050f4cc084c1d31d58a1d1c202d/resources/ext.embedVideo.videolink.js#L5-L20 Similar code is also present here: https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/440fb331a84b2050f4cc084c1d31d58a1d1c202d/resources/modules/iframe.js#L139-L155

It is possible to execute JS through attributes like onload or onmouseenter.

PoC

  1. Create a page with the following contents:
<div class="embedvideo-evl" data-iframeconfig='{"onload": "alert(1)"}'>Click me!</div> <evlplayer></evlplayer>
  1. Click on the "Click me!" text
  2. Click on the "Load video" button below <img width="855" height="404" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/afb3839a-012c-4e90-a208-a6137b704ccd" />

Impact

Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Unknown
  • Score:
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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Software From Fixed in
Composer icon starcitizenwiki / embedvideo - 4.0.0.x