CVE-2025-62508
Citizen vulnerable to stored XSS in sticky header button messages
Description
### Summary The JS implementation for copying button labels to the sticky header in the Citizen skin unescapes HTML characters, allowing for stored XSS through system messages. ### Details In the `copyButtonAttributes` function in `stickyHeader.js`, when copying the button labels, the `innerHTML` of the new element is set to the `textContent` of the old element: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/f4cbcecf5aca0ae69966b23d4983f9cb5033f319/resources/skins.citizen.scripts/stickyHeader.js#L29-L41 This unescapes any escaped HTML characters and causes the contents of the system messages to be interpreted as HTML. ### PoC 1. Edit any of the affected messages (`citizen-share`, `citizen-view-history`, `citizen-view-edit`, `nstab-talk`) to the following payload: `<img src="" onerror="alert('Sticky Header Button XSS')">`. 2. Visit any mainpage article in the wiki using the Citizen skin. <img width="495" height="228" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ac75b8e1-b181-4335-9526-17d6b6f8518e" /> <img width="569" height="157" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c052edb9-ff68-4869-9c66-3ec85e7ff68a" /> ### Impact This impacts wikis where a group has the `editinterface` but not the `editsitejs` user right. By default, this is the case for the `sysop` group.
How to fix CVE-2025-62508
To remediate CVE-2025-62508, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.9.0 or later
Is CVE-2025-62508 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 3.3.0, < 3.9.0