Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in QuickCMS (CVE-2025-9980)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in QuickCMS (CVE-2025-9980). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
QuickCMS is vulnerable to multiple Stored XSS in page editor functionality (pages-form). Malicious attacker with admin privileges can inject arbitrary HTML and JS into website, which will be rendered/executed when visiting edited page. By default admin user is not able to add JavaScript into the website.
The vendor was notified early about this vulnerability, but didn't respond with the details of vulnerability or vulnerable version range. Only version 6.8 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable, other versions were not tested and might also be vulnerable.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-9980 has been found in QuickCMS.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 4.8/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "QuickCMS CVE-2025-9980" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-9980 (QuickCMS) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 4.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
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 QuickCMS.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of QuickCMS.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.8/10). 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 'QuickCMS' . 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 'QuickCMS' . | 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
QuickCMS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
- advisory cvd@cert.pl
- web cvd@cert.pl