# CVE-2025-10280: Incorrect Content Type Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

> Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in user browsers via unescaped non-HTML content served with HTML content-type headers in IdentityIQ web services.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-799h-grwr-q8wh

## What is CVE-2025-10280?

CVE-2025-10280 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SailPoint Technologies IdentityIQ, published on 3 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

IdentityIQ
8.5, IdentityIQ 8.4 and all 8.4 patch levels prior to 8.4p4, IdentityIQ 8.3 and
all 8.3 patch levels including 8.3p5, and all prior versions allows some
IdentityIQ web services that provide non-HTML content to be accessed via a URL
path that will set the Content-Type to HTML allowing a requesting browser to
interpret content not properly escaped to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10280?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sailpoint Identityiq.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-10280?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10280 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-10280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SailPoint Technologies IdentityIQ

- [CVE-2024-10905](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10905/): IdentityIQ Improper Access Control VulnerabilityIdentityIQ Improper Access Control Vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-2227](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2227/): IdentityIQ JavaServer Faces File Path Traversal Vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2023-32217](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32217/): SailPoint IdentityIQ Unsafe use of Reflection Vulnerability (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2026-12341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-12341/): SailPoint IdentityIQ Improper Bearer Token Validation Vulnerability (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-46835](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-46835/): SailPoint IdentityIQ JavaServer File Path Traversal Vulnerability (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-10280 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-10280 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SailPoint Technologies IdentityIQ, published on 3 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SailPoint Technologies IdentityIQ. 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-2025-10280/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10280/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10280
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10280
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-10280

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10280/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.