CVE-2025-50869
Published: 01 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-50869 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Portswigger (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 41.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23372
Vulnerability details
A stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the qureydetails.php page of Institute-of-Current-Students 1.0, where the input fields for Query and Answer do not properly sanitize user input. Authenticated users can inject arbitrary JavaScript code.
- 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.