CVE-2025-36223 IBM OpenPages Host Header Injection
Attackers can exploit Host header injection in IBM OpenPages to perform XSS, cache poisoning, or session hijacking.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-36223?
CVE-2025-36223 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM OpenPages, published on 12 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
Weakness: CWE-644
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36223?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Openpages.
How do I fix CVE-2025-36223?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36223 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-36223 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36223 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM OpenPages
- CVE-2025-33110 IBM OpenPages Vulnerable to HTML Injection
- CVE-2025-36121 HTML Injection Vulnerability in a Specific URL Endpoint of the IBM OpenPages Application
- CVE-2025-27368 IBM OpenPages Information Disclosure
- CVE-2025-2670 IBM OpenPages information disclosure
- CVE-2025-36082 IBM OpenPages information disclosure
Sources
Also known as GHSA-57xh-vr62-7qqc.