Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-54414

Medium

Published: 26 July 2025

Published
26 July 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 5.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/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 0.0028 51.5th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-54414 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 48.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain; MITRE ATLAS techniques in scope: AI Model Inference API Access (AML.T0040), Exfiltration via AI Inference API (AML.T0024), External Harms (AML.T0048).

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of users' connections using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. In versions 1.21.2 and below, attackers can craft malicious pass-challenge pages that…

more

cause a user to execute arbitrary JavaScript code or trigger other nonstandard schemes. An incomplete version of this fix was tagged at 1.21.2 and then the release process was aborted upon final testing. To work around this issue: block any requests to the /.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/api/pass-challenge route with the ?redir= parameter set to anything that doesn't start with the URL scheme http, https, or no scheme (local path redirect). This was fixed in version 1.21.3.

CWE(s)

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Other Platforms
Risk Domain
Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai

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.
Why these techniques?

Vulnerability in public-facing Web AI Firewall allows crafting malicious pass-challenge pages via ?redir= parameter supporting javascript: and other nonstandard schemes, enabling arbitrary JavaScript execution equivalent to exploitation of a public-facing web application.

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0040: AI Model Inference API AccessAML.T0024: Exfiltration via AI Inference APIAML.T0048: External HarmsAML.T0018: Manipulate AI Model

Affected Assets

In
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

References