VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2026· Updated Jun 19, 2026

StarCitizenWiki Extension Embed Video: Stored XSS via unsanitized service name in exception text

CVE-2026-55690

Description

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. When the service name is not known, an exception is thrown with the service name injected into the message via sprintf here. This message is not sanitized and is marked as isHtml here. Similarly with {{evl: here.

PoC

// Must be on a page, not on ExpandTemplates
{{#ev:|dQw4w9WgXcQ}}
{{#evl:id=dummy|service=}}

Impact

Stored XSS that allows arbitrary Javascript/HTML insertion on any page that a user can edit. It requires no interaction and executes in the wiki origin for every visitor to the page.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
starcitizenwiki/embedvideoPackagist
< 4.1.04.1.0

Affected products

1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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