# CVE-2025-53096: Sunshine clickjacking in the UI leads to unauthorized actions being performed

> Attackers can trick authenticated users into performing unauthorized actions in the Sunshine web UI via clickjacking, requiring an upgrade to the patched version.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 1 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x97g-h2vp-g2c5

## What is CVE-2025-53096?

CVE-2025-53096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in LizardByte Sunshine, published on 1 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.628.4510, the web UI of Sunshine lacks protection against Clickjacking attacks. This vulnerability allows an attacker to embed the Sunshine interface within a malicious website using an invisible or disguised iframe. If a user is tricked into interacting (one or multiple clicks) with the malicious page while authenticated, they may unknowingly perform actions within the Sunshine application without their consent. This issue has been patched in version 2025.628.4510.

Weakness: CWE-1021 (Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53096?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Lizardbyte Sunshine.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-53096?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-53096 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53096 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in LizardByte Sunshine

- [CVE-2026-32253](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-32253/): Sunshine: Authentication bypass via improper client certificate validation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-53095](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53095/): Sunshine application-wide CSRF in the UI leads to command injection as Administrator (critical 9.7)
- [CVE-2025-10198](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10198/): LizardBytes Sunshine for Windows contains a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-10199](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10199/): A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in LizardBytes' Sunshine for Windows (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2024-51738](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51738/): Sunshine improperly enforces pairing protocol request order (high 7.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-53096 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-53096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in LizardByte Sunshine, published on 1 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53096 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: LizardByte Sunshine. 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-2025-53096/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53096/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53096
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53096
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53096

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53096/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.