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TI-2025-27744 Aliases CVE-2025-42620GHSA-r226-j7pf-48g6

CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup

Priority LOW 36CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Active
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

In affected versions, vulnerability-lookup handled user-controlled content in comments and bundles in an unsafe way, which could lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). On the backend, the related_vulnerabilities field of bundles accepted arbitrary strings without format validation or proper sanitization. On the frontend, comment and bundle descriptions were converted from Markdown to HTML and then injected directly into the DOM using string templates and innerHTML. This combination allowed an attacker who could create or edit comments or bundles to store crafted HTML/JavaScript payloads which would later be rendered and executed in the browser of any user visiting the affected profile page (user.html).  This issue affects Vulnerability-Lookup: before 2.18.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00293 22nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Vulnerability-Lookup (CIRCL): 2.18.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
CIRCLVulnerability-Lookupbefore 2.18.02.18.0Patch availableCNA
  • Vulnerability-Lookup VendorCIRCL Affected before 2.18.0 Fixed in 2.18.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Vulnerability-Lookup (CIRCL) Fixed in 2.18.0

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup 2.18.0

    3 records Highest priority Priority LOW 3 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-27742 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-LookupPriority LOW 35
    • TI-2025-27743 CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-LookupPriority LOW 32
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Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-42620
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r226-j7pf-48g6

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2021-20557 lib/DatabaseLayer.py in cve-search before 4.1.0 allows regular expression injection… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-28398 Stored XSS in modal item preview for long item content in AIL Framework CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
  • TI-2020-06847 Global.py in AIL framework 2.8 allows path traversal. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-27742 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2025-27743 CSRF vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.0
  • TI-2023-09040 workers/extractor.py in Pandora (aka pandora-analysis/pandora) 1.3.0 allows a denial of… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
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Sources

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