# CVE-2025-0423: Multiple Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Unauthenticated attackers can inject JavaScript to compromise user sessions and abuse privileges in the bestinformed Web application.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 18 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wrr8-9vrv-c2gc

## What is CVE-2025-0423?

CVE-2025-0423 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cordaware bestinformed Web, published on 18 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

In the "bestinformed Web" application, some user input was not properly sanitized. This leads to multiple unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated attacker is able to compromise the sessions of users on the server by injecting JavaScript code into their session using an "Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting". The attacker is then able to ride the session of those users and can abuse their privileges on the "bestinformed Web" application.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0423?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-0423?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0423 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-0423 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0423 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-0423 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-0423 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cordaware bestinformed Web, published on 18 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0423 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cordaware bestinformed Web. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0423/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0423/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0423
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0423
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-0423

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0423/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.