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CVE-2025-40642: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in WebWork

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-08 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebWork, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through the 'q' and 'engine' request parameters in /search.

Affected products

• WebWork PHP script: all versions

References

• https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-webwork

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