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SCA: security update for starcitizentools/short-description (GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428289

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Short Description is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. In version
 4.0.0, short descriptions are not properly sanitized before being inserted as HTML using
 mw.util.addSubtitle, allowing any user to insert arbitrary HTML into the DOM by editing a page. This issue
 has been patched in version 4.0.1. (CVE-2025-53369)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p85q-mww9-gwqf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428289

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.46

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53369

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53369

cwe: CWE-79