CVE-2025-37732 Kibana Cross-site Scripting via the Integration Package Upload Functionality

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

An authenticated attacker can inject HTML into Kibana via integration package uploads, potentially executing scripts in victim browsers.

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

What is CVE-2025-37732?

CVE-2025-37732 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 15 Dec 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 ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an authenticated user to render HTML tags within a user’s browser via the integration package upload functionality. This issue is related to ESA-2025-17 (CVE-2025-25018) bypassing that fix to achieve HTML injection.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37732?

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

PackageAffectedFixed in
kibana BitnamiAll versions8.19.8, 9.1.8, 9.2.2
elk BitnamiAll versions8.19.8, 9.1.8, 9.2.2

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2025-37732?

Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.8, 9.1.8 or 9.2.2.

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-2025-37732 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37732 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as BIT-elk-2025-37732, BIT-kibana-2025-37732, GHSA-97mj-r9v7-258f, MINI-2x77-cvfp-9c9w, MINI-4p23-xfr8-8pj9, MINI-9hqv-v286-2crr and 3 more.

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