gnome/gi-docgen · Security
GI-DocGen vulnerable to Reflected XSS via unescaped query strings
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-6p6h-rqr6-62mv
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-11687
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
A flaw was found in GI-DocGen. This vulnerability allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the page — enabling DOM access, session cookie theft and other client-side attacks — via a crafted URL that supplies a malicious value to the q GET parameter (reflected DOM XSS).
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11687 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11687 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403536 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/issues/228 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/commit/65d16b8ac178900602da540c8f5df4f52d5e8cf6 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p6h-rqr6-62mv ↗