# CVE-2025-53541: Tuleap is vulnerable to XSS attacks when displaying the children of a parent artifact

> Malicious users can inject scripts into artifact children views, forcing victims to execute arbitrary code and potentially compromising their accounts.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **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:** 29 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 29 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6r66-j76j-rwhw

## What is CVE-2025-53541?

CVE-2025-53541 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Enalean Tuleap, published on 29 Jul 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

Tuleap is an Open Source Suite created to facilitate management of software development and collaboration. In Tuleap Community Edition prior to version 16.9.99.1751892857 and Tuleap Enterprise Edition prior to 16.8-5 and 16.9-3, malicious users with some control over certain artifacts could insert malicious code when displaying the children of a parent artifact to force victims to execute the uncontrolled code. This is fixed in version Tuleap Community Edition prior to version 16.9.99.1751892857 and Tuleap Enterprise Edition prior to 16.8-5 and 16.9-3.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53541?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Enalean Tuleap.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-53541?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53541 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-53541 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53541 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Enalean Tuleap

- [CVE-2018-17298](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17298/): Business logic in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-7538](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-7538/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2014-7178](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-7178/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2021-43806](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43806/): SQL injection in Tuleap (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-41154](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41154/): SQL injection in the "SVN core" commits browser (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-53541 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-53541 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Enalean Tuleap, published on 29 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53541 exists.

Affected product: Enalean Tuleap. 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-2025-53541/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53541/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53541
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53541
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53541

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53541/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.