High (7.4). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in includes/CommentFormatter/CommentParser.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur because of mishandling of the 0x1b character, as demonstrated by Special:RecentChanges#%1b0000000.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.4 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)