CVE-2025-46178
Published: 09 June 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-46178 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vishalmathur Cloudclassroom-Php Project. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 37.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-17508
Vulnerability details
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in askquery.php via the eid parameter in the CloudClassroom PHP Project. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript in the context of a victim s browser session by sending a crafted URL, leading to…
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session hijacking or defacement.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
XSS via crafted URL enables exploitation of public-facing web app (T1190), arbitrary JS execution for browser session hijacking (T1185), stealing web session cookies (T1539), and page defacement (T1491).
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.