CVE-2025-25062

moderate-risk
Published 2025-02-03

An XSS issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.28.x before 1.28.5 and 1.29.x before 1.29.3. It doesn't sufficiently isolate long text content when the CKEditor 5 rich text editor is used. This allows a potential attacker to craft specialized HTML and JavaScript that may be executed when an administrator attempts to edit a piece of content. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have the ability to create long text content (such as through the node or comment forms) and an administrator must edit (not view) the content that contains the malicious content. This problem only exists when using the CKEditor 5 module.

Do I need to act?

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24.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 75% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 4.4/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

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moderate-risk
Severity 14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 15/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal