CVE-2025-0709
Published: 24 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-0709 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dcatadmin Dcat Admin. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 38.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-1832
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in Dcat-Admin 2.2.1-beta. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/auth/roles of the component Roles Page. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated…
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remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in the admin roles page enables arbitrary JavaScript execution (T1059.007) in the browser context of authenticated users viewing the page and facilitates stealing web session cookies (T1539) via classic XSS cookie theft techniques.
Affected Assets
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.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.