Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-33110

XSS in Ibm Openpages 9.0.0 … 9.1.0

XSS
Published
06 November 2025
Modified
24 November 2025
Patch / advisory
View advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 9th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-33110 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Ibm Openpages. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM OpenPages 9.1, and 9.0 with Watson is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.

CWE(s)
CWE-80

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-36121Same product: Ibm Openpages
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CVE-2025-1997Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-36230Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-36321Same vendor: Ibm

Affected Assets

ibm
openpages
9.0.0, 9.1.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
  • AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.2.1
  • V1.3.1
  • V1.3.3
  • V1.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Directly blocks the HTML injection at input by validating and rejecting untrusted markup before it is stored or reflected in IBM OpenPages pages.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Requires output filtering/encoding of all dynamic content so that injected HTML cannot execute in the victim's browser context.

AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement partial match
prevent

Enforces information-flow rules that can prevent untrusted user-supplied data from reaching browser-rendered pages without sanitization.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require output encoding and input validation that prevent basic XSS.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
detects

Security testing in development catches unneutralized script tags before release.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevent basic XSS.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements explicitly call for neutralization of script-related HTML tags.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping of <, >, & to block XSS.

A.8.23 Web filtering none match
none

Web filtering can block some reflected XSS payloads at the network edge.

References