CVE•Published 2025-09-25•Modified 2026-10-11•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-59839Star-citizen · Embedvideo
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.6
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS percentile
21
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 79% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The EmbedVideo Extension is a MediaWiki extension which adds a parser function called #ev and various parser tags for embedding video clips from various video sharing services. In versions 4.0.0 and prior, the EmbedVideo extension allows adding arbitrary attributes to an HTML element, allowing for stored XSS through wikitext. This issue has been patched via commit 4e075d3.
Timeline
Published 2025-09-25
Modified 2026-10-11
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2025-59839Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Star-citizen Embedvideo"All exposed Star-citizen Embedvideo instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Embedvideo"HTTP body or banner mentions "Embedvideo" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-59839Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-59839Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-59839Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-59839GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-59839" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2025-59839 on GitHub.