CVE-2025-6596

published 2026-02-02

CVE-2025-6596: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Vector. This vulnerability is…

Priority P4 13 low 5.3 CVSS 4.0

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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Vector. This vulnerability is associated with program files resources/skins.Vector.Js/portlets.Js, resources/skins.Vector.Legacy.Js/portlets.Js.

This issue affects Vector: from >= 1.40.0 before 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	mediawiki	< mediawiki 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1 (forky)	mediawiki 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1 (forky)
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1	1:1.43.3+dfsg-1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1	1:1.43.3+dfsg-1
wikimedia_foundation	vector	>= >= 1.40.0 < 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0	1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0

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