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CVSS 7.5 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-55690: StarCitizenWiki Extension Embed Video: Stored XSS via unsanitized service name in excepti…

Summary When passing an unknown service name to embedvideo, an error message is rendered containing the invalid service name. The service name is not sanitized and can contain HTML. Details There is a hardcoded list of…

7.5CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-55690
Vendorcomposer
Affected Productstarcitizenwiki/embedvideo
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score7.5 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Summary

When passing an unknown service name to embedvideo, an error message is rendered containing the invalid service name. The service name is not sanitized and can contain HTML.

Details

There is a hardcoded list of allowed services in a switch statement inside EmbedServiceFactory#newFromName [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedService/EmbedServiceFactory.php#L105). When the service name is not known, an exception is thrown with the service name injected into the message via sprintf [here](https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822/includes/EmbedService/EmbedServiceFactory.php#L286). This message is not sanitize

🎯 Known Indicators of Compromise

{"type":"sha1","value":"a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856dc8ab0b88f822","confidence_score":0.9,"first_seen":"2026-06-19","source_count":1} {"type":"url","value":"https://github.com/StarCitizenWiki/mediawiki-extensions-EmbedVideo/blob/a573a16d925ee0ea0d34b360856d","confidence_score":0.82,"first_seen":"2026-06-19","source_count":1}

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