CVE-2025-53904: The Scratch Channel Has Potential Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Severity: low (CVSS 1.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Scratch Channel is a news website that is under development as of time of this writing. The file `/api/admin.js` contains code that could make the website vulnerable to cross-site scripting. No known patches exist as of time of publication.

Affected products

the-scratch-channel.github.io: through b66a1cae45e05ad8971aecd96c3322520f8a5725

References

https://github.com/The-Scratch-Channel/the-scratch-channel.github.io/blob/main/api/admin.js#L18
https://github.com/The-Scratch-Channel/the-scratch-channel.github.io/security/advisories/GHSA-hgh4-pj74-f5rr

Get alerted when CVE-2025-53904 or the next vulnerability affects your stack