Vulnerability · Published Mar 7, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-27823
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Mail Disguise from backdropcms. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue was discovered in the Mail Disguise module before 1.x-1.0.5 for Backdrop CMS. It enables a website to obfuscate email addresses, and should prevent spambots from collecting them. The module doesn't sufficiently validate the data attribute value on links, potentially leading to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This is mitigated by the fact an attacker must be able to insert link (<a>) HTML elements containing data attributes into the page.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| backdropcms | Mail Disguise | 0 – before 1.x-1.0.5 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N