# CVE-2025-62697: Improperly sanitized style parameter in LanguageSelector

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.39
- Published: 2025-10-20 · Updated: 2025-10-20

## Affected

- The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - LanguageSelector Extension: from master, fixed in 1.39

## Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - LanguageSelector Extension allows Code Injection.This issue affects Mediawiki - LanguageSelector Extension: from master before 1.39.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - LanguageSelector Extension, upgrade to a fixed version (1.39) per the references below.
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## References

- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I338288e756de4e58a3f1f02a9c205b37f4927935
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399724

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