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CVE-2025-11937: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – SecurePoll Extension · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'

Affects The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – SecurePoll ExtensionSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 38% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 18 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

  1. Apply official patches or updates from the Wikimedia Foundation as soon as they become available for the SecurePoll extension.
  2. Until patches are released, disable or restrict access to the SecurePoll extension if feasible, especially on public-facing instances.
  3. Implement strict input validation on all user-supplied data fields related to polling features, ensuring that potentially dangerous characters are sanitized or escaped.
  4. Employ robust output encoding techniques (e.g., HTML entity encoding) when rendering user input in web pages to prevent script execution.
  5. Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts and reduce the impact of XSS attacks.
  6. Conduct regular security audits and code reviews focusing on input handling in Mediawiki extensions.
  7. Monitor web server logs and application behavior for unusual activities indicative of XSS exploitation attempts.
  8. Educate administrators and users about the risks of XSS and encourage prompt reporting of suspicious content.
  9. Consider web application firewalls (WAFs) with rules tailored to detect and block XSS payloads targeting Mediawiki.
  10. Backup Mediawiki content regularly to enable quick restoration if malicious scripts are injected.

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - SecurePoll Extension allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll Extension: master.

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