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CVE-2025-20385: Stored Cross-Site scripting (XSS) through Anchor Tag "href" in Navigation Bar Collections in Splunk Enterprise
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.2, 9.4.6, 9.3.8, and 9.2.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.1.2507.6, 10.0.2503.7, and 9.3.2411.117, a user who holds a role with a high privilege capability `admin_all_objects` could craft a malicious payload through the href attribute of an anchor tag within a collection in the navigation bar, which could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.
Affected products
- Splunk Enterprise: from 9.2.0 before 9.2.10; from 9.3.0 before 9.3.8; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.6; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.2 — fixed in 10.0.2, 9.2.10, 9.3.8, 9.4.6
- Splunk Cloud Platform: from 9.3.2411 before 9.3.2411.117; from 10.0.2503 before 10.0.2503.7; from 10.1.2507 before 10.1.2507.6 — fixed in 10.0.2503.7, 10.1.2507.6, 9.3.2411.117
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 10.0.2, 9.2.10, 9.3.8, 9.4.6; Splunk Cloud Platform 10.0.2503.7, 10.1.2507.6, 9.3.2411.117. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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