Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22855

Low

Published: 08 April 2025

Published
08 April 2025
Modified
23 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.8th percentile
Risk Priority 5 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22855 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fortinet Forticlientems. Its CVSS base score is 2.7 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') [CWE-79] vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient before 7.4.1 may allow the EMS administrator to send messages containing javascript code.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

fortinet
forticlientems
7.2.1 — 7.2.10 · 7.4.0 — 7.4.3

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

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

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

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

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

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

References