# CVE-2025-2745: AVEVA PI Web API Cross-site Scripting

> Authenticated attackers can inject persistent JavaScript via annotations, requiring victims to disable CSP, leading to code execution or account takeover.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.5 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **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:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-986q-gcjg-v754

## What is CVE-2025-2745?

CVE-2025-2745 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in AVEVA PI Web API, published on 12 Jun 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

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in AVEVA PI Web API version 2023 
SP1 and prior that, if exploited, could allow an authenticated attacker 
(with privileges to create/update annotations or upload media files) to 
persist arbitrary JavaScript code that will be executed by users who 
were socially engineered to disable content security policy protections 
while rendering annotation attachments from within a web browser.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2745?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-2745?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2745 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-2745 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2745 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2745 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2745 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in AVEVA PI Web API, published on 12 Jun 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-2025-2745 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: AVEVA PI Web API. 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-2025-2745/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2745/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2745
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2745
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2745

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2745/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.