CVE-2025-7739 HIGH

CVE-2025-7739: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab

Vendor Gitlab

Product GitLab

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published August 13, 2025

Last update August 13, 2025

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CVSS base score

8.7/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction Required

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2 before 18.2.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users to achieve stored cross-site scripting by injecting malicious HTML content in scoped label descriptions.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 13, 2025 CVE published

August 13, 2025 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7739 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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