CVE-2025-7021 OpenAI Operator - API Spoofing through Locking Operator on FullScreen
Remote attackers can capture sensitive user input via UI redressing and fullscreen spoofing in OpenAI Operator, tricking users into interacting with malicious overlays.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-7021?
CVE-2025-7021 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in OpenAI Operator, published on 10 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
Fullscreen API Spoofing and UI Redressing in the handling of Fullscreen API and UI rendering in OpenAI Operator SaaS on Web allows a remote attacker to capture sensitive user input (e.g., login credentials, email addresses) via displaying a deceptive fullscreen interface with overlaid fake browser controls and a distracting element (like a cookie consent screen) to obscure fullscreen notifications, tricking the user into interacting with the malicious site.
Weakness: CWE-451
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-7021?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openai Operator.
How do I fix CVE-2025-7021?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-7021 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2025-7021 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-7021 exists.