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CVE-2026-55690: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in StarCitizenWiki mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo

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High
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-55690cvecve-2026-55690cwe-79
Published: 09/15/2026 (09/15/2026, 16:34:08 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: StarCitizenWiki
Product: mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo

Description

The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. Prior to 4.1.0, EmbedServiceFactory::newFromName in includes/EmbedService/EmbedServiceFactory.php interpolates an attacker-controlled unknown service name into exception text, and includes/EmbedVideo.php returns that text as HTML through the isHtml output path without neutralization. Both the #ev parser function and the evl parser form can reach this error path. A user able to edit a wiki page can inject stored HTML or JavaScript into the error output, causing code to execute in the wiki origin for visitors who render the page. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.0.

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.5high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected software

StarCitizenWiki

mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo

Affected versions
<4.1.0

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-06-17T00:13:10.650Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6aa9769455bf5e2cf5196305

Added to database: 09/15/2026, 16:47:16 UTC

Last updated: 09/15/2026, 16:47:16 UTC

Views: 1

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