Rarlab WinRAR 7.11 Report Generation cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Rarlab WinRAR 7.11 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Report Generation. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-52331. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Rarlab WinRAR 7.11. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Report Generation. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the generate report functionality in Rarlab WinRAR 7.11, allows attackers to disclose user information such as the computer username, generated report directory, and IP address. The generate report command includes archived file names without validation in the HTML report, which allows potentially malicious HTML tags to be injected into the report. User interaction is required. User must use the "generate report" functionality and open the report.

This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-52331 since 06/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack 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 275408 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-52331), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.12 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (275408). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• File Compression Software

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• Rarlab

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• WinRAR

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• 7.11

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