Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23080

Medium

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23080 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - OpenBadges Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - OpenBadges Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.11, from 1.41.X before 1.41.3, from 1.42.X…

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before 1.42.2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Wikimedia
Foundation Mediawiki
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References