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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2025-53486 EUVD-2025-20242GHSA-p6wr-jj4q-jc36

WikiCategoryTagCloud: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via linkstyle attribute in parser function

Published Jul 7, 2025 · Updated Jul 7, 2025 · Assigned by wikimedia-foundation

Description

The WikiCategoryTagCloud extension is vulnerable to reflected XSS via the linkstyle attribute, which is improperly concatenated into inline HTML without escaping. An attacker can inject JavaScript event handlers such as onmouseenter using carefully crafted input via the {{#tag:tagcloud}} parser function, resulting in arbitrary JavaScript execution when a victim hovers over a link in the category cloud.

The vulnerability exists because the linkstyle parameter is only passed through Sanitizer::checkCss() (which does not escape HTML) and is then directly inserted into a style attribute using string concatenation instead of Html::element or Html::openElement.

This issue affects Mediawiki - WikiCategoryTagCloud 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - WikiCategoryTagCloud extension 1.39.x – < 1.39.13, 1.42.x – < 1.42.7, 1.43.x – < 1.43.2 1.39.13

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