# CVE-2025-31988: HCL Digital Experience is susceptible to cross site scripting (XSS)

> An attacker can execute arbitrary scripts in the administrative UI of HCL Digital Experience, potentially compromising user sessions or data.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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:** 19 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 19 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hvm6-6m6r-3c5m

## What is CVE-2025-31988?

CVE-2025-31988 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in HCL Software Digital Experience, published on 19 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

HCL Digital Experience is susceptible to cross site scripting (XSS) in an administrative UI with restricted access.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-31988?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hcltech Digital Experience.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-31988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-31988 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-31988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in HCL Software Digital Experience

- [CVE-2023-37538](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37538/): HCL Digital Experience is susceptible to cross site scripting (XSS) (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2026-21837](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-21837/): HCL Digital Experience is affected by an OS command injection vulnerability in the Digital Asset Management API (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2020-14255](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14255/): HCL Digital Experience 9.5 containers include vulnerabilities that could expose sensitive data to unauthorized parties via crafted requests. (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2026-21825](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-21825/): HCL Digital Experience Compose is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search center (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2026-21826](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-21826/): HCL Digital Experience and HCL Digital Experience Compose could be susceptible to Host header injection (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-31988 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-31988 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in HCL Software Digital Experience, published on 19 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: HCL Software Digital Experience. 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-2025-31988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-31988/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31988
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31988
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-31988

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-31988/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.