# CVE-2025-40992: Stored XSS in Creativeitem Sociopro

> A stored XSS vulnerability in Sociopro allows attackers to steal session cookies from authenticated users via the profile update endpoint.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/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:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w5qf-4gxq-v2q2

## What is CVE-2025-40992?

CVE-2025-40992 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Creativeitem Sociopro, published on 2 Oct 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

Stored XSS vulnerability in Creativeitem Sociopro due to lack of proper validation of user inputs via the endpoint '/sociopro/profile/update_profile', affecting to 'name' parameter via POST. This vulnerability could allow a remote user to send a specially crafted query to an authenticated user and steal his/her cookie session details.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40992?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-40992?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-40992 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-40992 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40992 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40992 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-40992 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Creativeitem Sociopro, published on 2 Oct 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-2025-40992 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Creativeitem Sociopro. 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-2025-40992/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40992/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40992
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40992
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-40992

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40992/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.