Caido up to 0.48.x Toast UI cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Caido up to 0.48.x. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Toast UI. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-53834. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Caido up to 0.48.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Toast UI. 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:

Caido is a web security auditing toolkit. A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Caido’s toast UI component in versions prior to 0.49.0. Toast messages may reflect unsanitized user input in certain tools such as Match&Replace and Scope. This could allow an attacker to craft input that results in arbitrary script execution. Version 0.49.0 fixes the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-53834 since 07/09/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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.

Upgrading to version 0.49.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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• Caido

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
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• 0.34
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• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45
• 0.46
• 0.47
• 0.48

Website

• Product: https://github.com/caido/caido/

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