Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25968

Medium

Published: 19 October 2021

Published
19 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 42.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25968 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Alkacon Opencms. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 42.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In “OpenCMS”, versions 10.5.0 to 11.0.2 are affected by a stored XSS vulnerability that allows low privileged application users to store malicious scripts in the Sitemap functionality. These scripts are executed in a victim’s browser when they open the page…

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containing the vulnerable field.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

alkacon
opencms
10.5.0 — 11.0.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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