Reflected cross-site scripting in gi-docgen - CVE-2025-11687

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Reflected cross-site scripting in gi-docgen - CVE-2025-11687

Published: October 14, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU116970
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-11687
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

gi-docgen
Fedora
Anolis OS
gi-docgen
gi-docgen-doc

How to mitigate CVE-2025-11687

Install updates from vendor's website.

gi-docgen - update to 2025.5
gi-docgen - update to 2023.1-4
gi-docgen-doc - update to 2023.1-4
gi-docgen - addressed in versions 2025.5-1.el9, 2025.5-1.el10_0, 2025.5-1.el10_1, 2025.5-1.el10_2, 2025.5-1.fc41, 2025.5-1.fc42, 2025.5-1.fc43

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