# CVE-2025-9980: Multiple Stored XSS in QuickCMS

> Admins can inject malicious scripts into QuickCMS pages, leading to XSS attacks against visitors, requiring specific admin privileges to exploit.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 23 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q24c-8f3w-h9g2

## What is CVE-2025-9980?

CVE-2025-9980 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in OpenSolution QuickCMS, published on 23 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

QuickCMS is vulnerable to multiple Stored XSS in page editor functionality (pages-form). Malicious attacker with admin privileges can inject arbitrary HTML and JS into website, which will be rendered/executed when visiting edited page. By default admin user is not able to add JavaScript into the website.

The vendor was notified early about this vulnerability, but didn't respond with the details of vulnerability or vulnerable version range. Only version 6.8 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable, other versions were not tested and might also be vulnerable.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9980?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Opensolution Quick.cms.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-9980?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9980 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-9980 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9980 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in OpenSolution QuickCMS

- [CVE-2025-9982](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9982/): Hard-coded admin credentials in Quick.CMS (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-54541](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54541/): Cross-Site Request Forgery in QuickCMS (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-54542](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54542/): Sending Password in GET Request (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2009-4121](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4121/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2025-54543](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54543/): Stored XSS in QuickCMS (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9980 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-9980 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in OpenSolution QuickCMS, published on 23 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9980 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: OpenSolution QuickCMS. 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-2025-9980/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9980/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9980
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9980
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9980

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9980/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.