Vulnerability · Published Feb 3, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-25063
Medium 4.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in backdrop 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 10% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An XSS issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.28.x before 1.28.5 and 1.29.x before 1.29.3. It does not sufficiently validate uploaded SVG images to ensure they do not contain potentially dangerous SVG tags. SVG images can contain clickable links and executable scripting, and using a crafted SVG, it is possible to execute scripting in the browser when an SVG image is viewed. This issue is mitigated by the attacker needing to be able to upload SVG images, and that Backdrop embeds all uploaded SVG images within <img> tags, which prevents scripting from executing. The SVG must be viewed directly by its URL in order to run any embedded scripting.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| backdropcms | backdrop | 1.28.0 – before 1.28.51.29.0 – before 1.29.3 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N