CVE-2025-59839

The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.

CVSS 3.1

5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-79

Published

2025-09-25

Modified

2026-10-11

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• star-citizen:embedvideo

References

• https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/440fb331a84b2050f4cc084c1d31d58a1d1c202d/resources/ext.embedVideo.videolink.js#L5-L20
• https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/440fb331a84b2050f4cc084c1d31d58a1d1c202d/resources/modules/iframe.js#L139-L155
• https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/commit/4e075d3dc9a15a3ee53f449a684d5ab847e52f01
• https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-4j5h-mvj3-m48v
• https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-4j5h-mvj3-m48v

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