# CVE-2025-24909: Cross-site scripting in Pentaho Business Analytics Server

> Attackers can inject malicious scripts via URLs in the Analyzer plugin, potentially stealing session cookies or performing actions on behalf of victims.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x2mw-2wm2-5876

## What is CVE-2025-24909?

CVE-2025-24909 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 16 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Overview 

 

The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralize user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. (CWE-79) 

 

Description 

 

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server prior to versions 10.2.0.2, including 9.3.x and 8.3.x, allow a malicious URL to inject content into the Analyzer plugin interface. 

 

Impact 

 

Once the malicious script is injected, the attacker can perform a variety of malicious activities. The attacker could transfer private information, such as cookies that may include session information, from the victim's machine to the attacker. The attacker could send malicious requests to a web site on behalf of the victim, which could be especially dangerous to the site if the victim has administrator privileges to manage that site.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24909?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-24909?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24909 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24909 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24909 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 16 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server. 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-2025-24909/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24909/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24909
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24909
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24909

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24909/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.