TabberNeue vulnerable to Stored XSS through wikitext
The advisory, in context
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:
- Go to Special:ExpandTemplates and insert the following wikitext:
<tabber class='test123" onmouseenter="alert(1)"'>
|-|First Tab Title=
First tab content goes here.
</tabber>
- Press "OK"
- Hover over the tabber
XSS through script tags:
- 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>
- Press "OK"
Impact
Arbitrary HTML can be inserted into the DOM by any user, allowing for JavaScript to be executed.
Affected packages
Start with the recorded fix for your release branch. Check your installed version and test compatibility before upgrading. Fixing this advisory does not rule out other vulnerabilities in the release.
From 3.0.0 before 3.1.1
Fixed in 3.1.1
2 explicitly affected versions
v3.0.0, v3.1.0
View affected-version evidence
{
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.1.1"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"v3.0.0",
"v3.1.0"
]
}References
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/security/advisories/GHSA-jfj7-249r-7j2m
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53093
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/4cdf217ef96da74a1503d1dd0bb0ed898fc2a612
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/commit/62ce0fcdf32bd3cfa77f92ff6b940459a14315fa
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Components/TabberComponentTabs.php#L15-L31
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/Tabber.php#L76
- https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-extensions-TabberNeue/blob/3a23b703ce36cfc4128e7921841f68230be4059a/includes/templates/Tabs.mustache#L1