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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00017.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4355-1 mediawiki security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6085-1 mediawiki security update
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401099 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Sanitizer::validateAttributes data-XSS
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 0, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-03T21:10:33.348Z

Reserved: 2025-09-29T13:18:37.248Z

Link: CVE-2025-61638

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-03T21:10:25.686Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-03T00:16:09.617

Modified: 2026-02-03T16:44:03.343

Link: CVE-2025-61638

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses