CVE-2025-27801

July 29, 2025, 2:14 p.m.

4.6
Medium

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. ContentReference properties, which could be used in the "Edit" section of the CMS, offered an upload functionality for documents. These documents could later be used as displayed content on the page. It was possible to upload SVG files that include malicious JavaScript code that would be executed if a user visited the direct URL of the preview image. Attackers needed at least the role "WebEditor" in order to exploit this issue. 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)

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Optimizely
  • Episerver.cms.core
  • Episerver.cms.ui
  • <11.21.4, <12.22.1
  • <11.37.5, <11.37.3

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a optimizely episerver.cms.core <11.21.4 / / / / / / /
a optimizely episerver.cms.ui <11.37.5 / / / / / / /
a optimizely episerver.cms.core <12.22.1 / / / / / / /
a optimizely episerver.cms.ui <11.37.3 / / / / / / /

References

https://api.nuget.optimizely.com/packages/episerver.cms.core/11.21.4#
https://api.nuget.optimizely.com/packages/episerver.cms.core/12.22.1#
https://r.sec-consult.com/optimizely

Tags

CWE-79
551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf
2025-07-28
CVE-2025-27801

CVSS Score

4.6 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • User Interaction: ACTIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/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

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Timeline

Published: July 28, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
Last Modified: July 29, 2025, 2:14 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

551230f0-3615-47bd-b7cc-93e92e730bbf

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