CVE-2025-9222
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.7 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
8.7CVSS HIGH
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2.2 before 18.5.5, 18.6 before 18.6.3, and 18.7 before 18.7.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to achieve stored cross-site scripting by exploiting GitLab Flavored Markdown.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/01/07/patch-release-gitlab-18-7-1-released/Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/562561
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3297483
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9222
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2428222
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-9222.json