CVE-2025-49578
Citizen allows stored XSS in user registration date message
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Citizen allows stored XSS in user registration date message
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-49578- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-18205
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.
- Record
EUVD-2025-18205- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h
starcitizentools/citizen-skin allows stored XSS in user registration date message
Summary
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.
Details
The result of $this->lang->userDate( $timestamp, $this->user ) returns unescaped values, but is inserted as raw HTML by Citizen:
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/072e4365e9084e4b153eac62d3666566c06f5a49/includes/Components/CitizenComponentUserInfo.php#L55-L60
PoC
- Go to any page using citizen with the uselang parameter set to x-xss and while being logged in
Depending on the registration date of the account you're logged in with, various messages can be shown. In my case, it's
november:
Impact
This impacts wikis where a group has the editinterface but not the editsitejs user right.
- Record
GHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-49578- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Citizen allows stored XSS in user registration date message
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-49578- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h
starcitizentools/citizen-skin allows stored XSS in user registration date message
Summary
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.
Details
The result of $this->lang->userDate( $timestamp, $this->user ) returns unescaped values, but is inserted as raw HTML by Citizen:
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/072e4365e9084e4b153eac62d3666566c06f5a49/includes/Components/CitizenComponentUserInfo.php#L55-L60
PoC
- Go to any page using citizen with the uselang parameter set to x-xss and while being logged in
Depending on the registration date of the account you're logged in with, various messages can be shown. In my case, it's
november:
Impact
This impacts wikis where a group has the editinterface but not the editsitejs user right.
- Record
GHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
starcitizentools/citizen-skinPackagist |
3.3.0 up to 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 |
starcitizentools/citizen-skinPackagist |
3.3.0 up to 3.3.1, plus listed versions v3.3.0 |
3.3.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-49578 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Starcitizen.tools Citizen, published June 12, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.43%, the 37th percentile. Fixed in starcitizentools/citizen-skin 3.3.1.
References
github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-2v3v-3whp-953h
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49578