Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-48993

Medium

Published: 17 June 2025

Published
17 June 2025
Modified
04 September 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0013 31.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-48993 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Intermesh Group-Office. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 31.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Group-Office is an enterprise customer relationship management and groupware tool. Prior to versions 6.8.123 and 25.0.27, a malicious JavaScript payload can be executed via the Look and Feel formatting fields. Any user can update their Look and Feel Formatting input…

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fields, but the web application does not sanitize their input. This could result in a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue has been patched in versions 6.8.123 and 25.0.27.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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.
Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS enables exploitation of public-facing web application (T1190), arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007), and stealing web session cookies for hijacking (T1539).

Affected Assets

intermesh
group-office
≤ 6.8.123 · 25.0.1 — 25.0.27

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.

addresses: CWE-79

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

addresses: CWE-79

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

addresses: CWE-79

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

References