Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-67483

XSS in Mediawiki 1.43.0 – 1.43.6

Published
03 February 2026
Modified
09 April 2026
CVSS Score v4 0.0
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/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
EPSS Score 0.0022 13th percentile
Risk Priority 0 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-67483 is a uncategorised-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki. Its CVSS base score is 0.0.

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 13th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

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.Page.Preview.Js. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.43.6, 1.44.3, 1.45.1.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

XSS in public-facing MediaWiki enables web app exploitation and arbitrary JS execution in browser.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2023-37302Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-37254Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-45360Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-36675Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-22910Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-37251Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-45373Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki
CVE-2023-37304Same product: Mediawiki Mediawiki

Affected Assets

mediawiki
mediawiki
1.45.0 · 1.43.0 — 1.43.6 · 1.44.0 — 1.44.3

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
  • SI-3 Malicious Code Protection
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)
  • SI-3 Malicious Code Protection
Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.1.2
  • V1.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires validation of all inputs to block unneutralized script content before page generation, addressing the root cause of this CWE-79 XSS flaw in MediaWiki preview handling.

prevent

Mandates output filtering/encoding of web responses to neutralize script payloads, preventing execution of attacker-supplied content in the affected MediaWiki JS preview path.

preventdetect

Provides malicious-code inspection and sandboxing that can block or alert on injected scripts at runtime, though it does not remediate the underlying input-neutralization defect.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly target introduction of XSS via coding standards/testing (mostly), yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors unaddressed (partial).

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching and EOL replacement can remediate known XSS instances in libraries or frameworks (partial) but do nothing to enforce input neutralization in application code (none).

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Secure-coding testing and automated code-analysis tools are applied to detect improper neutralization of script-related content during web-page generation.

prevents

Knowledge exchange on emerging attack techniques and patches reduces the likelihood that cross-site scripting flaws remain unaddressed in deployed applications.

prevents

Operational indicators of compromise for web-application attacks can be incorporated into WAF or input-filtering rules, lowering the likelihood that unsanitized data reaches the browser.

prevents

Requiring language-specific secure-coding standards and automated scanning during the SDLC catches missing output encoding or improper neutralization of untrusted data before the software reaches production.

prevents

Secure-coding standards, SAST scans and removal of insecure code samples together eliminate the failure to neutralize script content that produces cross-site scripting flaws.

none

Webpage malware scanning and block-listing of known malicious sites reduce the likelihood that reflected or stored script payloads reach a user’s browser.

References