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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-49577 json

Citizen allows stored XSS in preference menu headings

published 2025-06-12 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jwr7-992g-68mh , EUVD-2025-18207

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. Various preferences messages are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.

Patch / fix

  • packagist starcitizentools/citizen-skin 3.3.1
  • starcitizen.tools citizen 3.3.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-jwr7-992g-68mh referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist starcitizentools/citizen-skin
>=2.13.0, <3.3.1
3.3.1

Affected products

  • StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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