# CVE-2025-65027: RomM Chained XSS and CSRF Vulnerabilities Enable Admin Account Takeover

> Authenticated users can upload malicious files to trigger stored XSS and CSRF, enabling full administrative account takeover in RomM.

- **Severity:** High 7.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 3 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v3c6-w996-f7hx

## What is CVE-2025-65027?

CVE-2025-65027 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in rommapp romm, published on 3 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

RomM (ROM Manager) allows users to scan, enrich, browse and play their game collections with a clean and responsive interface. RomM contains multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities that allow authenticated users to upload malicious SVG or HTML files. When these files are accessed the browser executes embedded JavaScript, leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) which when combined with a CSRF misconfiguration they lead to achieve full administrative account takeover, creating a rogue admin account, escalating the attacker account role to admin, and much more. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.4.1 and 4.4.1-beta.2.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65027?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Romm.app Romm.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-65027?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-65027 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-65027 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-65027 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- RomM  4.4.0 -  XSS_CSRF Chain (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in rommapp romm

- [CVE-2025-65097](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65097/): Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Allows Unauthorized Deletion of User Collections (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-65096](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65096/): RomM Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Allows Unauthorized Access to Private Collections (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-65027 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-65027 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in rommapp romm, published on 3 Dec 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-2025-65027 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: rommapp romm. 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-2025-65027/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65027/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65027
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65027
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-65027

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65027/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.