CVE-2025-8550

medium

Published 2025-08-05 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

5.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

1.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

6.4

Description

A vulnerability was found in atjiu pybbs up to 6.0.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/topic/list. The manipulation of the argument Username leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 2fe4a51afbce0068c291bc1818bbc8f7f3b01a22. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

64%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-52400 webapps multiple

Byte Reaper · 2025-08-11

atjiu pybbs 6.0.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
pybbs_project	pybbs	`{"endIncluding":"6.0.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79 CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.