Medium (5.4). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The CheckUser extension’s Special:Investigate page has a vulnerability in the Account information tab, where specific internationalized messages are rendered without proper escaping. Attackers can exploit this by appending ?uselang=x-xss to the URL, causing reflected XSS when the UI renders affected message keys.
This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser 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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.4 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 9% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)