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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2025-6594 json

XSS in Special:ApiSandbox

published 2026-02-02 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-206671

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files resources/src/mediawiki.Special.Apisandbox/ApiSandbox.Js.

This issue affects MediaWiki: from 1.27.0 before 1.39.13, 1.42.7 1.43.2, 1.44.0.

Patch / fix

  • Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.39.13, 1.42.7 1.43.2, 1.44.0
  • mediawiki Debian 12 1:1.39.13-1~deb12u1
  • mediawiki Debian 14, Debian 13 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-6594

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-6594 updated cvss 8.1

MediaWiki: MediaWiki: Cross-site Scripting vulnerability via improper input neutralization

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 0.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADP 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA 4.0 0.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.