CVE-2025-42620 HIGH

CVE-2025-42620: CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup

Vendor Circl
Product Vulnerability-Lookup
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published December 8, 2025
Last update December 8, 2025

CVSS base score

8.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 8, 2025 CVE published
December 8, 2025 Record updated