VulnerabilityPublished 12 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-55170: LabRedesCefetRJ WeGIA · Cross-site Scripting

Affects LabRedesCefetRJ WeGIASource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium : upgrade to 3.4.8 when convenient.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.5Medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 39% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 3.4.8

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
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: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
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: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within 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 12 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 26 Oct 2026.

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 or the CVSS exploit maturity 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

Upgrade LabRedesCefetRJ WeGIA to 3.4.8.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
LabRedesCefetRJ WeGIA	Affected <3.4.8	Fixed in 3.4.8

AI-suggested

Immediate upgrade to WeGIA version 3.4.8 or later, where the vulnerability has been patched, is the primary and most effective mitigation step.
Implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block malicious payloads targeting the 'verificacao' and 'redir_config' parameters, focusing on typical XSS attack patterns.
Conduct user awareness training to reduce the likelihood of successful social engineering attacks that rely on user interaction to trigger the vulnerability.
Employ Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts in the browser, mitigating the impact of potential XSS payloads.
Regularly audit and sanitize all user inputs in custom or extended modules of WeGIA to prevent similar injection flaws.
Monitor logs for unusual URL requests or repeated attempts to access the vulnerable endpoint with suspicious parameters.
For organizations unable to immediately patch, consider temporarily disabling or restricting access to the /html/alterar_senha.php endpoint if feasible, or implement strict input validation at the web server or proxy level.

Description

WeGIA is an open source web manager with a focus on the Portuguese language and charitable institutions. Prior to version 3.4.8, a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in the /html/alterar_senha.php endpoint of the WeGIA application. This vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts in the verificacao and redir_config parameter. This issue has been patched in version 3.4.8.

Impact

For European organizations, especially those operating charitable or non-profit institutions that may use WeGIA or similar localized open-source software, this vulnerability poses a risk of session hijacking and unauthorized access to user accounts. The confidentiality breach could lead to exposure of sensitive user data, including personal information of donors, volunteers, or beneficiaries. While the vulnerability does not directly affect system integrity or availability, the resulting account compromise could facilitate further attacks or unauthorized actions within the application. Additionally, exploitation could damage organizational reputation and trust, particularly in sectors handling sensitive or personal data under GDPR regulations. The requirement for user interaction means phishing or social engineering campaigns could be used to exploit this vulnerability, increasing the risk if users are not adequately trained or if anti-phishing measures are weak. Since WeGIA focuses on Portuguese language and charitable institutions, European organizations with ties to Portuguese-speaking communities or those using this software are at higher risk.

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).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 12 Aug 2025, 20:48 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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