CVE 4.8 MEDIUM

Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Episerver Content Management System (CMS) Admin Dashboard_CVE-2025-27800

4.8 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Description

The Episerver Content Management System (CMS) by Optimizely was affected by multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. This allowed an authenticated attacker to execute malicious JavaScript code in the victim's browser.



The Admin dashboard offered the functionality to add gadgets to the dashboard.
This included the "Notes" gadget. An authenticated attacker with the corresponding
access rights (such as "WebAdmin") that was impersonating the victim could insert
malicious JavaScript code in these notes that would be executed if the victim
visited the dashboard.

Affected products: Version 11.X: EPiServer.CMS.Core (<11.21.4) with EPiServer.CMS.UI (<11.37.5), Version 12.X: EPiServer.CMS.Core (<12.22.1) with EPiServer.CMS.UI (<11.37.3)

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-27800
Source SEC-VLab
Published Jul 28, 2025 at 08:33
Modified Jul 29, 2025 at 09:36

Affected Product

Vendor Optimizely
Product Episerver Content Management System (CMS)
Version 11.x
Affected Versions Optimizely Episerver Content Management System (CMS) 11.x
Optimizely Episerver Content Management System (CMS) 12.x

CWE Classification

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