CVE-2025-51503
Published: 31 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-51503 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Microweber Microweber. Its CVSS base score is 7.6 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 32.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23298
Vulnerability details
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microweber CMS 2.0 allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into user profile fields, leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution in admin browsers.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS allows injection of malicious JavaScript into user profiles, executing in admin browsers upon viewing, facilitating public-facing app exploitation (T1190), JS execution (T1059.007), and browser credential/session theft (T1555.003, 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.