Vulnerability GHSA-v65j-hff3-753c

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 7.5
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
2 days ago
September 25, 2026 at 03:03 PM UTC
Mediawiki EmbedVideo Extension has stored XSS via malformed src url with $wgEmbedVideoRequireConsent disabled
3.0.0 - 4.0.0
3.0.0 - 4.0.0

Summary

Mediawiki EmbedVideo Extension has stored XSS via malformed src url with $wgEmbedVideoRequireConsent disabled

Details

Summary

With $wgEmbedVideoRequireConsent disabled (not the default), the urls for videos are passed into an iframe src attribute without sanitization. When given a malformed url or id, the src attribute can be escaped via double quotes, allowing for html/javascript injection.

Details

The iframe assembled here adds the url from getUrl() as the src without sanitization. The id regex for the archiveorg service and the url regexes for the wistia and sharepoint services allow for double quotes to be introduced.

PoC

Using double quotes, the src attribute can be escaped.

<embedvideo service="archiveorg" id='a" onmouseover="alert(document.domain)" data-x="'></embedvideo>

Impact

When $wgEmbedVideoRequireConsent = false, any user able to edit a page can inject arbitrary JavaScript into an HTML event handler attribute (e.g. onfocus) via parameter. It requires no interaction (autofires via autofocus) and executes in the wiki origin for every visitor to the page.

Timeline

Published
2 days ago
September 25, 2026 at 03:03 PM UTC
Fixed (4.1.0)
3 months ago
June 19, 2026 at 06:27 PM UTC
Last Modified
2 days ago
September 25, 2026 at 03:15 PM UTC