CVE-2025-61655: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation VisualEditor. This…

PriorityP425medium6.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

0.14%

4.1th percentile

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation VisualEditor. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/ApiVisualEditorEdit.Php, modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.Init.Mw.DesktopArticleTarget.Js, modules/ve-mw/ui/dialogs/ve.Ui.MWSaveDialog.Js. This issue affects VisualEditor: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	mediawiki	< mediawiki 1:1.39.17-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)	mediawiki 1:1.39.17-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u5	1:1.35.13-1+deb11u5
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.39.17-1~deb12u1	1:1.39.17-1~deb12u1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.6+dfsg-1~deb13u1	1:1.43.6+dfsg-1~deb13u1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.5+dfsg-1	1:1.43.5+dfsg-1
mediawiki	visual_editor	—	—
mediawiki	visual_editor	>= 1.39.0 < 1.39.14	1.39.14
mediawiki	visual_editor	>= 1.43.0 < 1.43.4	1.43.4
wikimedia_foundation	visualeditor	>= * < 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1	1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv4.00.0NONECVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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