CVE-2025-11937: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – SecurePoll Extension · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'
Affects The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – SecurePoll ExtensionSource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC
- 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:LExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 18 Oct 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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
- Apply official patches or updates from the Wikimedia Foundation as soon as they become available for the SecurePoll extension.
- Until patches are released, disable or restrict access to the SecurePoll extension if feasible, especially on public-facing instances.
- Implement strict input validation on all user-supplied data fields related to polling features, ensuring that potentially dangerous characters are sanitized or escaped.
- Employ robust output encoding techniques (e.g., HTML entity encoding) when rendering user input in web pages to prevent script execution.
- Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts and reduce the impact of XSS attacks.
- Conduct regular security audits and code reviews focusing on input handling in Mediawiki extensions.
- Monitor web server logs and application behavior for unusual activities indicative of XSS exploitation attempts.
- Educate administrators and users about the risks of XSS and encourage prompt reporting of suspicious content.
- Consider web application firewalls (WAFs) with rules tailored to detect and block XSS payloads targeting Mediawiki.
- 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.