CVE-2025-59821 (GCVE-0-2025-59821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-23 17:42 – Updated: 2025-09-23 18:37
VLAI
Title
DNN vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) using url to profile
Summary
DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, DNN’s URL/path handling and template rendering can allow specially crafted input to be reflected into a user profile that is returned to the browser. In these cases, the application does not sufficiently neutralize or encode characters that are meaningful in HTML, so an attacker can cause a victim’s browser to interpret attacker-controlled content as part of the page’s HTML. This issue has been patched in version 10.1.0.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-23 18:29 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7552 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
dnnsoftware Dnn.Platform Affected: < 10.1.0
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