CVE-2025-48470VulnerabilityPublished 24 Jun 2025Updated 25 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-48470: Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE) · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment (WISE)Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.1 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

4.1Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 8% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

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

Attack Vector: Adjacent
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Adjacent: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack, but the attack is limited at the protocol level to a logically adjacent topology. This can mean an attack must be launched from the same shared physical (e.g., Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11) or logical (e.g., local IP subnet) network, or from within a secure or otherwise limited administrative domain (e.g., MPLS, secure VPN to an administrative network zone).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: High: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable component that could affect component-wide settings and files.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: Low: Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability. Even if repeated exploitation of the vulnerability is possible, the attacker does not have the ability to completely deny service to legitimate users. The resources in the impacted component are either partially available all of the time, or fully available only some of the time, but overall there is no direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 24 Jun 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

AI-suggested

1. Immediate mitigation should focus on restricting access to the Advantech WISE device management interfaces to trusted personnel only, ideally through network segmentation and firewall rules limiting access to management ports. 2. Implement strict input validation and sanitization controls on all user inputs interacting with device fields to prevent injection of malicious scripts. While this may require vendor intervention, administrators should monitor for any unusual inputs or behavior. 3. Employ web application firewalls (WAFs) capable of detecting and blocking XSS payloads targeting the device interfaces. 4. Enforce strong authentication mechanisms, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), for accessing device management consoles to reduce the risk of unauthorized input submissions. 5. Regularly audit and monitor logs for suspicious activities indicative of attempted XSS attacks or unauthorized access. 6. Engage with Advantech support to request patches or firmware updates addressing this vulnerability and apply them promptly once available. 7. Educate users with access to the device interfaces about the risks of XSS and encourage cautious behavior when interacting with device data fields. 8. Consider deploying endpoint protection solutions on systems accessing the device interfaces to detect and block malicious script execution. These measures, combined, can reduce the attack surface and limit the potential impact of exploitation.

Description

Successful exploitation of the stored cross-site scripting vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into device fields and executed in other users’ browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, credential theft, or privilege escalation.

Impact

For European organizations, especially those operating in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, utilities, and critical infrastructure, this vulnerability poses a significant risk. Advantech WISE devices are commonly used for wireless sensing and equipment monitoring, which are integral to operational technology (OT) environments. Successful exploitation could lead to unauthorized control or disruption of industrial processes, data leakage, and compromise of user credentials. Session hijacking and privilege escalation could allow attackers to move laterally within the network or gain control over other connected systems. This could result in operational downtime, safety hazards, and financial losses. Additionally, defacement or manipulation of device interfaces could undermine trust in system integrity and complicate incident response efforts. Given the increasing convergence of IT and OT networks in European industries, the vulnerability could serve as an entry point for broader cyberattacks. The absence of known exploits currently reduces immediate risk, but the potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical systems is high if exploited.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

csa.gov.sg/alerts-and-advisories/alerts/al-2025-061 (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 24 Jun 2025, 02:55 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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