Cross-site scripting in FortiSandbox - CVE-2025-52436

 

Cross-site scripting in FortiSandbox - CVE-2025-52436

Published: February 10, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU122531
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-52436
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Fortinet, Inc
Affected software:
FortiSandbox

Detailed vulnerability description

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, then click on the back button in browser 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.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-52436

Install updates from vendor's website.

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