# CVE-2025-32809: Cross-site scripting in InQuizitive

> Students can execute stored XSS attacks against educators via input fields, potentially compromising educator accounts and data.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 11 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xr5v-6j2h-c7g8

## What is CVE-2025-32809?

CVE-2025-32809 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in W. W. Norton InQuizitive, published on 11 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

W. W. Norton InQuizitive through 2025-04-08 allows students to conduct stored XSS attacks against educators via a bonus description, feedback.choice_fb[], or question_id.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-32809?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wwnorton Inquizitive.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-32809?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-32809 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-32809 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-32809 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in W. W. Norton InQuizitive

- [CVE-2025-32808](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32808/): Missing authorization in InQuizitive (high 7.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-32809 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-32809 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in W. W. Norton InQuizitive, published on 11 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-32809 exists.

Affected product: W. W. Norton InQuizitive. 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-2025-32809/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32809/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32809
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32809
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-32809

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32809/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.