5.4

CVE-2025-53487: wikimedia foundation mediawiki - approvedrevs extension Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 5.4v3.1MediumDeferred
Published 07-07-2025Last modified 07-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-53487 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wikimedia foundation mediawiki - approvedrevs extension. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 07-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The ApprovedRevs extension for MediaWiki is vulnerable to stored XSS in multiple locations where system messages are inserted into raw HTML without proper escaping. Attackers can exploit this by injecting JavaScript payloads via the uselang=x-xss language override, which causes crafted message keys to be rendered unescaped. This issue affects Mediawiki - ApprovedRevs extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

9%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.17% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.20%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wikimedia foundation1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

2 links