SilverStripe Elemental up to 5.3.11 Content blocks in use Report cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in SilverStripe Elemental up to 5.3.11. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Content blocks in use Report. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-25197. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in SilverStripe Elemental up to 5.3.11. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Content blocks in use Report. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Silverstripe Elemental extends a page type to swap the content area for a list of manageable elements to compose a page out of rather than a single text field. An elemental block can include an XSS payload, which can be executed when viewing the "Content blocks in use" report. The vulnerability is specific to that report and is a result of failure to cast input prior to including it in the grid field. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.3.12.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-25197 since 02/03/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.3.12 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 34ff4ed498ccab94cc5f55ef9a56c37f491eda1d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• SilverStripe

Name

• Elemental

Version

• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4
• 5.3.5
• 5.3.6
• 5.3.7
• 5.3.8
• 5.3.9
• 5.3.10
• 5.3.11

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• open-source

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