GHSA-JC4G-C8WW-5738

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-23 15:09 – Updated: 2025-09-23 19:13

Summary

DNN vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) using url to profile

Details

Summary

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists under certain conditions, using a specially crafter url to view a user profile

Description

DNN’s URL/path handling and template rendering can allow specially crafted input to be reflected into a user profile that are 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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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  "id": "GHSA-jc4g-c8ww-5738",
  "modified": "2025-09-23T19:13:33Z",
  "published": "2025-09-23T15:09:47Z",
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}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-23 17:42 – Updated: 2025-09-23 18:37

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 mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/secur…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
dnnsoftware	Dnn.Platform	Affected: < 10.1.0

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GHSA-JC4G-C8WW-5738

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

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