CVE-2025-55104VulnerabilityPublished 21 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-55104: Esri Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise Sites · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Esri Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise SitesSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.8 Medium.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

4.8Medium

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:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

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

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
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: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
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: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 21 Aug 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 2026-10-25.

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

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Esri Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise Sites	Affected =10.9.1	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

European organizations should implement the following specific mitigations: 1) Restrict site creation and editing privileges strictly to trusted and trained personnel to minimize the risk of malicious payload injection. 2) Implement rigorous input validation and output encoding on all user-supplied content within the portal, especially for fields that allow HTML or script content. 3) Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts in browsers accessing the portal. 4) Monitor and audit site content changes regularly for suspicious or unexpected script insertions. 5) Educate users about the risks of XSS and encourage cautious behavior when interacting with portal content. 6) Maintain strict session management and consider implementing HttpOnly and Secure flags on cookies to reduce session hijacking risks. 7) Apply any vendor patches or updates as soon as they become available, and engage with Esri support to obtain interim fixes or workarounds. 8) Consider network segmentation and access controls to limit exposure of the portal to only necessary users and systems. 9) Use web application firewalls (WAFs) with rules tuned to detect and block XSS payloads targeting the portal.

Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists ArcGIS HUB and ArcGIS Enterprise Sites which allows an authenticated user with the ability to create or edit a site to add and store an XSS payload. If this stored XSS payload is triggered by any user attacker supplied JavaScript may execute in the victim's browser.

Impact

For European organizations using Esri Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise Sites, this vulnerability poses a risk to the confidentiality and integrity of user sessions and data. Since ArcGIS Enterprise Sites are often used by government agencies, urban planners, environmental organizations, and utilities across Europe for geospatial data sharing and collaboration, exploitation could lead to unauthorized data access or manipulation. Attackers could leverage this XSS to steal session cookies, perform actions on behalf of legitimate users, or deliver further malware payloads. This could undermine trust in critical geospatial services and potentially disrupt decision-making processes that rely on accurate GIS data. The requirement for authenticated access limits the attack surface to internal or trusted users, but insider threats or compromised accounts could be leveraged. The medium severity score suggests a moderate risk, but the strategic importance of GIS platforms in Europe elevates the potential operational impact. Additionally, the cross-site scripting vulnerability could be used as a stepping stone for more complex attacks within interconnected enterprise environments.

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

esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/trust-arcgis/administration/2925891-2 (opens in a new tab)

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 21 Aug 2025, 19:48 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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