Wikimedia Feed Utils up to 1.43 on Mediawiki escape output

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Wikimedia Feed Utils up to 1.43 on Mediawiki. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to escape output. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-32072. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Wikimedia Feed Utils up to 1.43 on Mediawiki and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a escape output vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-116. The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki Core - Feed Utils allows WebView Injection.This issue affects Mediawiki Core - Feed Utils: from 1.39 through 1.43.

The weakness was presented by Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE. The advisory is available at gerrit.wikimedia.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-32072 since 04/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/04/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 241337 (Debian dsa-5957 : mediawiki - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (241337). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Wikimedia

Name

• Feed Utils

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43

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