TI-2025-20670 Aliases CVE-2025-28010 GHSA-hm54-fg2w-2g6j

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in MODX prior to 3.1.0.

MEDIUM 58CWE-79Published 2025-03-13 · Updated 2025-03-19

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in MODX prior to 3.1.0. The vulnerability allows authenticated users to upload SVG files containing malicious JavaScript code as profile images, which gets executed in victims' browsers when viewing the profile image.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00259 17th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	modx/revolution (Packagist)	up to 3.1.0	—	No fix listed	GHSA-hm54-fg2w-2g6j

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
modx/revolution (Packagist) Vendor— Affected up to 3.1.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-hm54-fg2w-2g6j

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:modx:modx::::::::	up to 3.1.0	Vulnerable	Modx

cpe:2.3:a:modx:modx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 3.1.0 Vulnerable ·Modx

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-28010
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hm54-fg2w-2g6j

References

Sources

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