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GHSA-86rg-8hc8-v82p

MediumCVSS 5.5 / 10
Published Oct 13, 2025·Last modified Oct 14, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Summary

Reflected-XSS in report_this function in librenms/includes/functions.php

Details

Recently, it was discovered that the report_this function had improper filtering (htmlentities function was incorrectly used in a href environment), which caused the project_issues parameter to trigger an XSS vulnerability.

The Vulnerable Sink: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/master/includes/functions.php#L444

PoC

GET project_issues=javascript:alert(document.cookie)

Impact

XSS vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute malicious scripts in users' browsers, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive data, session hijacking, or malware distribution.

Suggestion

It is recommended to filter dangerous protocols, e.g. javascript:/file:.

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

Threat Intelligence
2.7

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.23%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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