Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-48917

Medium

Published: 13 June 2025

Published
13 June 2025
Modified
08 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.2th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-48917 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Freelance-It-Consultant Eu Cookie Compliance. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Drive-by Compromise (T1189); ranked at the 39.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Drupal EU Cookie Compliance (GDPR Compliance) allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects EU Cookie Compliance (GDPR Compliance): from 0.0.0 before 1.26.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.
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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
attack.mitre.org →
T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers Credential Access
Adversaries may acquire credentials from web browsers by reading files specific to the target browser.
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Why these techniques?

XSS vulnerability enables arbitrary JavaScript injection and execution in users' browsers via the cookie compliance banner, facilitating drive-by compromise on site visitors, client-side exploitation, JavaScript command execution, and theft of session cookies/browser credentials.

Affected Assets

freelance-it-consultant
eu cookie compliance
≤ 8.x-1.26.0

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References