Description

Short Description is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. In version 4.0.0, short descriptions are not properly sanitized before being inserted as HTML using mw.util.addSubtitle, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.1.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-07-03T19:57:55.147Z

Last Modified :

2025-07-03T20:11:01.943Z

Source :

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https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/commit/bc4fdbaeb1dff127fb6d08c0d385b64aa128c8f8 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-ShortDescription/security/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf cve-icon cve-icon
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