CVE-2025-61638

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki, Wikimedia Foundation Parsoid. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/parser/Sanitizer.Php, src/Core/Sanitizer.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1; Parsoid: from * before 0.16.6, 0.20.4, 0.21.1.

CVSS v3 4.8 MEDIUM

4.8^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.7 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401099	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wikimedia:parsoid::::::node.js::*
	cpe:2.3:a:wikimedia:parsoid::::::node.js::*
	cpe:2.3:a:wikimedia:parsoid::::::node.js::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-02-03 00:16

Updated : 2026-03-16 18:34

NVD link : CVE-2025-61638

Mitre link : CVE-2025-61638

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-61638

JSON object : View

Products Affected

wikimedia

parsoid

mediawiki

mediawiki

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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