starcitizentools/mediawiki-extensions-tabberneue · Security
TabberNeue vulnerable to Stored XSS through wikitext
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jfj7-249r-7j2m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-53093
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Description
Summary
Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by inserting a payload into any allowed attribute of the <tabber> tag.
Details
The args provided within the wikitext as attributes to the <tabber> tag are passed to the TabberComponentTabs class:
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Tabber.php#L76
In TabberComponentTabs, the attributes are validated before being supplied to the Tabs template.
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Components/TabberComponentTabs.php#L15-L31
However, the validation is insufficient.
What Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes does is call validateAttributes, which
* - Discards attributes not on the given list
* - Unsafe style attributes are discarded
* - Invalid id attributes are re-encoded
However, the attribute values are expected to be escaped when inserted into HTML.
The attribute values are then inserted into HTML without being escaped: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/templates/Tabs.mustache#L1
PoC
XSS through attributes:
- Go to Special:ExpandTemplates and insert the following wikitext:
<tabber class='test123" onmouseenter="alert(1)"'>
|-|First Tab Title=
First tab content goes here.
</tabber>
- Press "OK"
- Hover over the tabber
XSS through script tags:
- Go to Special:ExpandTemplates and insert the following wikitext:
<tabber class='test123"><script>alert(2)</script>'>
|-|First Tab Title=
First tab content goes here.
</tabber>
- Press "OK"
Impact
Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CWE-80 · Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
References
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/security/advisories/GHSA-jfj7-249r-7j2m ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53093 ↗
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/4cdf217ef96da74a1503d1dd0bb0ed898fc2a612 ↗
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/62ce0fcdf32bd3cfa77f92ff6b940459a14315fa ↗
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Components/TabberComponentTabs.php#L15-L31 ↗
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Tabber.php#L76 ↗
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/templates/Tabs.mustache#L1 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfj7-249r-7j2m ↗