CVE-2025-21616
Published: 06 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-21616 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Plane Plane. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2573
Vulnerability details
Plane is an open-source project management tool. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Plane versions prior to 0.23. The vulnerability allows authenticated users to upload SVG files containing malicious JavaScript code as profile images, which gets executed…
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in victims' browsers when viewing the profile image.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.