CVE-2025-7739
HIGHCVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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2Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2 before 18.2.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users to achieve stored cross-site scripting by injecting malicious HTML content in scoped label descriptions.
Analysis
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2 before 18.2.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users to achieve stored cross-site. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Technical Context
This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79), which allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2 before 18.2.2 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed authenticated users to achieve stored cross-site scripting by injecting malicious HTML content in scoped label descriptions. Affected products include: Gitlab. Version information: before 18.2.2.
Affected Products
Gitlab.
Remediation
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Sanitize all user input, use Content-Security-Policy headers, encode output contextually (HTML, JS, URL). Use frameworks with built-in XSS protection.
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