CVE-2025-42620

CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup

Published Dec 8, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 8.3 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In affected versions, vulnerability-lookup handled user-controlled
content in comments and bundles in an unsafe way, which could lead to
stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).




On the backend, the related_vulnerabilities field of bundles accepted
arbitrary strings without format validation or proper sanitization. On
the frontend, comment and bundle descriptions were converted from
Markdown to HTML and then injected directly into the DOM using string
templates and innerHTML. This combination allowed an attacker who could
create or edit comments or bundles to store crafted HTML/JavaScript
payloads which would later be rendered and executed in the browser of
any user visiting the affected profile page (user.html). 







This issue affects Vulnerability-Lookup: before 2.18.0.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Circl
Circl vulnerability-lookup
Vendors & Products Circl
Circl vulnerability-lookup
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description In affected versions, vulnerability-lookup handled user-controlled content in comments and bundles in an unsafe way, which could lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). On the backend, the related_vulnerabilities field of bundles accepted arbitrary strings without format validation or proper sanitization. On the frontend, comment and bundle descriptions were converted from Markdown to HTML and then injected directly into the DOM using string templates and innerHTML. This combination allowed an attacker who could create or edit comments or bundles to store crafted HTML/JavaScript payloads which would later be rendered and executed in the browser of any user visiting the affected profile page (user.html).  This issue affects Vulnerability-Lookup: before 2.18.0.
Title CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
ENISA
Published
Updated
Dec 8, 2025, 12:27 PM
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025, 12:34 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Dec 8, 2025, 1:15 PM
Modified
Oct 14, 2026, 10:10 PM