🛡️ CVE-2025-53093 — tabber-neue
Description
TabberNeue vulnerable to Stored XSS through wikitext
Summary
Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by inserting a payload into any allowed attribute of the <tabber> tag.
Details
The args provided within the wikitext as attributes to the <tabber> tag are passed to the TabberComponentTabs class:
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Tabber.php#L76
In TabberComponentTabs, the attributes are validated before being supplied to the Tabs template.
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Components/TabberComponentTabs.php#L15-L31
However, the validation is insufficient.
What Sanitizer::validateTagAttributes does is call validateAttributes, which
```
- - Discards attributes not on the given list
- - Unsafe style attributes are discarded
- - Invalid id attributes are re-encoded
```
However, the attribute values are expected to be escaped when inserted into HTML.
The attribute values are then inserted into HTML without being escaped:
https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/templates/Tabs.mustache#L1
PoC
XSS through attributes:
1. Go to Special:ExpandTemplates and insert the following wikitext:
```
<tabber class='test123" onmouseenter="alert(1)"'>
|-|First Tab Title=
First tab content goes here.
</tabber>
```
2. Press "OK"
3. Hover over the tabber

XSS through script tags:
1. Go to Special:ExpandTemplates and insert the following wikitext:
```
<tabber class='test123"><script>alert(2)</script>'>
|-|First Tab Title=
First tab content goes here.
</tabber>
```
2. Press "OK"

Impact
Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability low.
Weakness class
CVE-2025-53093 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.
Affected software
CVE-2025-53093 is recorded against 2 packages.
- starcitizentools/tabber-neue (from 3.0.0 up to 3.1.1)
- unknown
Timeline and source
Published on 27 June 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
References
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| starcitizentools/tabber-neue | 3.0.0 | 3.1.1 |
| unknown | — | — |
References
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