Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-36121

XSS in Ibm Openpages 9.0.0 … 9.1.0

XSS
Published
27 October 2025
Modified
03 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 0.0017 6th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-36121 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Ibm Openpages. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 6th 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 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remotely authenticated 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

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CVE-2025-27368Same product: Ibm Openpages
CVE-2025-14289Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-66486Same vendor: Ibm
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
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)
  • SI-7 Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity
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 acceptance of unvalidated HTML input that enables the CWE-80 injection described in the CVE.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Ensures HTML output is filtered or encoded before rendering, stopping execution of attacker-supplied code in the victim's browser context.

SI-7 Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity partial match
detect

Provides integrity verification of application content that can detect unauthorized HTML modifications introduced via the injection flaw.

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