CVE-2025-53484: Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Securepoll Extension

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

User-controlled inputs are improperly escaped in: * VotePage.php (poll option input) * ResultPage::getPagesTab() and getErrorsTab() (user-controllable page names) This allows attackers to inject JavaScript and compromise user sessions under certain conditions. This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Securepoll Extension: from 1.39, before 1.39.13 (fixed in 1.39.13); from 1.42, before 1.42.7 (fixed in 1.42.7); from 1.43, before 1.43.2 (fixed in 1.43.2)

Published 2025-07-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.