CVE-2025-46550 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in yeswiki/yeswiki. A fix is available for yeswiki/yeswiki — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Yeswiki Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-site Scripting
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-46550.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Summary
Vulnerable Version: Yeswiki < v4.5.4
Category: Injection
CWE: 79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79)
CVSS: 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Vulnerable Endpoint: /?BazaR
Vulnerable Parameter: idformulaire
Payload: <script>alert(1)</script>
Details
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser-side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it.
PoC
- Visit the endpoint as mentioned below and see that an alert box pops up:
URL with Payload:
https://yeswiki.net/?BazaR&vue=formulaire&action=confirm_delete&idformulaire=%3cscript%3ealert(1)%3c%2fscript%3e
Impact
An attacker can use a reflected cross-site scripting attack to steal cookies from an authenticated user by having them click on a malicious link. Stolen cookies allow the attacker to take over the user’s session. This vulnerability may also allow attackers to deface the website or embed malicious content.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | yeswiki/yeswiki | all versions | 4.5.4composer require yeswiki/yeswiki:^4.5.4 |
Affected Products
yeswikiyeswikiDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for yeswiki/yeswiki, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update yeswiki/yeswiki to 4.5.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-46550 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Escape or sanitise the affected output on the server side rather than relying on client-side filtering, and add a Content-Security-Policy that blocks inline script execution so injected markup cannot run even if it reaches the page.
How to detect CVE-2025-46550
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2025-46550 -u https://target- Template
- YesWiki < 4.5.4 - Cross-Site Scripting
- Severity
- medium
- Impact
- Attackers can steal cookies, hijack user sessions, deface website, or embed malicious content.
- Remediation
- Update to version 4.5.4 or later.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (MuhammadWaseem), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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