{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6596 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2025-6596 is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Vector, published on 2 Feb 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-6596 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-6596 is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Vector, published on 2 Feb 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6596 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Wikimedia Foundation Vector. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6596/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-6596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6596/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-6596","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2025-6596","GHSA-r8cg-vqg3-34j4","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-6596"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"MediaWiki Vector skin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers can inject malicious scripts via portlet labels in the Vector skin, potentially stealing user sessions or executing code.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"wikimedia-foundation","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":0,"severity":"low","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Vector. This vulnerability is associated with program files resources/skins.Vector.Js/portlets.Js, resources/skins.Vector.Legacy.Js/portlets.Js.\n\nThis issue affects Vector: from \u003e= 1.40.0 before 1.42.7, 1.43.2, 1.44.0.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Vector inserts portlet labels as HTML, allowing for stored XSS through system messages","id":"CVE-2025-6596","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"MediaWiki should not consider autocreation as login for the purposes of security reauthentication","id":"CVE-2025-6597"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in MultimediaViewer","id":"CVE-2025-6595"},"products":["Vector"],"published":"2026-02-02","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-02-03","vendors":["Wikimedia Foundation"]},"summary":"Attackers can inject malicious scripts via portlet labels in the Vector skin, potentially stealing user sessions or executing code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6596/"}