Elastic Kibana up to 9.1.4 cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.29/8.18.7/8.19.4/9.0.7/9.1.4. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-25018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.29/8.18.7/8.19.4/9.0.7/9.1.4. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.elastic.co. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-25018 since 01/31/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. 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 269974 (Kibana 7.0.x <= 7.17.29 / 8.0.x <= 8.18.7 / 8.19.x <= 8.19.4 / 9.0.x <= 9.0.7 / 9.1.x <= 9.1.4 Multiple XSS (ESA-2025-17, ESA-2025-20)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (269974) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-33707). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.5
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NVD Base Score: 5.4
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CNA Base Score: 8.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 269974
Nessus Name: Kibana 7.0.x <= 7.17.29 / 8.0.x <= 8.18.7 / 8.19.x <= 8.19.4 / 9.0.x <= 9.0.7 / 9.1.x <= 9.1.4 Multiple XSS (ESA-2025-17, ESA-2025-20)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/31/2025 CVE reserved
10/10/2025 +251 days Advisory disclosed
10/10/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/30/2025 +20 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: discuss.elastic.co
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-25018 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-25018
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-327899
EUVD: 🔒

Entryinfo

Created: 10/10/2025 13:40
Updated: 10/30/2025 15:34
Changes: 10/10/2025 13:40 (61), 10/11/2025 01:32 (2), 10/14/2025 09:43 (1), 10/30/2025 15:34 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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