Wikimedia HTML Tags up to 1.43 on Mediawiki cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Wikimedia HTML Tags up to 1.43 on Mediawiki. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-32073. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Wikimedia HTML Tags up to 1.43 on Mediawiki. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - HTML Tags allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - HTML Tags: from 1.39 through 1.43.

The weakness was presented by Yaron_Koren. The advisory is shared for download at phabricator.wikimedia.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-32073 since 04/03/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

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 EUVD (EUVD-2025-10819). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Wikimedia

Name

• HTML Tags

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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