# CVE-2025-22221: VMware Aria Operations for Logs stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-22221)

> An admin can inject malicious scripts into Agent Configuration, leading to code execution in victim browsers during delete actions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qrcx-78jp-35gm

## What is CVE-2025-22221?

CVE-2025-22221 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 30 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

VMware Aria Operation for Logs contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A malicious actor with admin privileges to VMware Aria Operations for Logs may be able to inject a malicious script that could be executed in a victim's browser when performing a delete action in the Agent Configuration.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22221?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Vmware Aria Operations for Logs, Vmware Cloud Foundation.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22221?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22221 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-22221 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22221 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Cloud Foundation

- [CVE-2023-34051](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34051/): Auth bypass in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-20864](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20864/): Deserialization in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-22218](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22218/): VMware Aria Operations for Logs information disclosure vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2023-34052](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34052/): Deserialization in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2023-20865](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20865/): Command injection in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22221 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22221 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 30 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22221 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Vmware Cloud Foundation. 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-2025-22221/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22221/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22221
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22221
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22221

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22221/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.