CVE-2025-40627
Published: 12 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-40627 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Abantecart Abantecart. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 37.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14315
- 🇪🇸 INCIBE: www.incibe.es
Vulnerability details
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AbanteCart v1.4.0, that could allow an attacker to execute JavaScript code in a victim's browser by sending the victim a malicious URL. This vulnerability can be exploited to steal sensitive user data, such as…
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session cookies, or to perform actions on behalf of the user, through "/eyes? [XSS_PAYLOAD]".
- 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.