CVE-2025-48993
Published: 17 June 2025
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-18452
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
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
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.