Cisco Secure Email/Secure Email and Web Manager Web-based Management Interface cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Cisco Secure Email and Secure Email and Web Manager. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Web-based Management Interface. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-20180. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Email and Secure Email and Web Manager (the affected version is unknown). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Email Gateway could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of an affected interface to click a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected interface or access sensitive, browser-based information. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Operator.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-20180 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216073 (Cisco Secure Email Gateway XSS (cisco-sa-esa-sma-xss-WCk2WcuG)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216073). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Cisco

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• Secure Email
• Secure Email and Web Manager

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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