Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in vulnerability-lookup (CVE-2025-60249)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in vulnerability-lookup (CVE-2025-60249). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
vulnerability-lookup 2.16.0 allows XSS in bundle.py, comment.py, and user.py, by a user on a vulnerability-lookup instance who can add bundles, comments, or sightings. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the handling of user-supplied input in the Bundles, Comments, and Sightings components. Untrusted data was not properly sanitized before being rendered in templates and tables, which could allow attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application. The issue was due to unsafe use of innerHTML and insufficient validation of dynamic URLs and model fields. This vulnerability has been fixed by escaping untrusted data, replacing innerHTML assignments with safer DOM methods, encoding URLs with encodeURIComponent, and improving input validation in the affected models.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-60249 has been found in vulnerability-lookup.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.4/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "vulnerability-lookup CVE-2025-60249" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-60249 (vulnerability-lookup) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 6.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in vulnerability-lookup.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of vulnerability-lookup.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'vulnerability-lookup' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'vulnerability-lookup' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
vulnerability-lookupを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web cve@mitre.org