# CVE-2024-25109: Cross-Site Scripting in the extensions, settings, permissions and namespaces subpages of ManageWiki

> An attacker with editinterface rights can inject malicious scripts into ManageWiki settings pages, potentially compromising user sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4jr2-jhfm-2r84

## What is CVE-2024-25109?

CVE-2024-25109 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in miraheze ManageWiki, published on 9 Feb 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

ManageWiki is a MediaWiki extension allowing users to manage wikis. Special:ManageWiki does not escape escape interface messages on the `columns` and `help` keys on the form descriptor. An attacker may exploit this and would have a cross site scripting attack vector. Exploiting this on-wiki requires the `(editinterface)` right. Users should apply the code changes in commits `886cc6b94`, `2ef0f50880`, and `6942e8b2c` to resolve this vulnerability. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25109?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Miraheze Managewiki.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-25109?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-25109 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-25109 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25109 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in miraheze ManageWiki

- [CVE-2021-29483](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29483/): wikiconfig API leaked private config variables set through ManageWiki (critical 9.4)
- [CVE-2025-32956](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32956/): ManageWiki has SQL injection vulnerability in NamespaceMigrationJob (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2025-32964](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32964/): Missing authorization in ManageWiki (medium 4.6)
- [CVE-2025-43861](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43861/): ManageWiki Vulnerable to Self-XSS in review dialog via unsanitized field reflection (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-25109 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-25109 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in miraheze ManageWiki, published on 9 Feb 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25109 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: miraheze ManageWiki. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25109/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25109/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25109
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25109
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-25109

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25109/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.