CVE-2025-46545
Published: 25 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-46545 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sherparpa Sherpa Orchestrator. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11968
Vulnerability details
In Sherpa Orchestrator 141851, the functionality for adding or updating licenses allows for stored XSS attacks by an administrator through the name parameter. The XSS payload can execute when the license expires.
- 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.