CVE-2025-11224 (GCVE-0-2025-11224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-14 18:58 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:21
VLAI?
Title
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.10 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to execute stored cross-site scripting through improper input validation in the Kubernetes proxy functionality.
Severity ?
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 15.10 , < 18.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.5 , < 18.5.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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