CVE-2025-25018 Kibana Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

What is CVE-2025-25018?

CVE-2025-25018 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 10 Oct 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

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25018?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2025-25018?

Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8 or 9.1.5.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2025-25018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

• CVE-2019-7609 Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-25015 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-37288 Deserialization in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-31415 Code injection in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2018-17245 Information disclosure in Kibana Critical 9.8

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-elk-2025-25018, BIT-kibana-2025-25018, GHSA-23vx-2j4v-jvhm, MINI-522c-6h7m-f58g, MINI-7jxm-ccg6-h8cw, MINI-9q74-m4mp-99cc and 2 more.