Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-53599

Critical

Published: 04 July 2025

Published
04 July 2025
Modified
01 October 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0041 61.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-53599 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Navercorp Whale. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 38.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Whale browser for iOS before 3.9.1.4206 allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the browser via a crafted javascript scheme.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

navercorp
whale
≤ 3.9.1.4206

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