CVE-2025-25009

High

Published: 07 October 2025

Published

07 October 2025

Modified

30 October 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0002 5.9th percentile

Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25009 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Elastic Kibana. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 5.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to Stored XSS via case file upload.

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

elastic

kibana

7.0.0 — 8.18.8 · 8.19.0 — 8.19.5 · 9.0.0 — 9.0.8

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.