Stored XSS via unencoded chat message output
Published Jul 22, 2025 · Updated Jul 22, 2025
Stored XSS in Code Projects Public Chat Room 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to run scripts in other users' browsers via chat posts. The chat rendering logic reads stored chat_msg and your_name values from the database and inserts them into HTML without output encoding. An attacker must sign in and another user must view the stored conversation; the script then acts within that viewer's session context.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Code Projects Public Chat Room 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to run scripts in other users' browsers via chat posts. The chat rendering logic reads stored chat_msg and your_name values from the database and inserts them into HTML without output encoding. An attacker must sign in and another user must view the stored conversation; the script then acts within that viewer's session context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-7951
- Published
- Jul 22, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 22, 2025
- Vendor
- Code Projects
- Product
- Public Chat Room
- Classifications
- CWE-79, CWE-94, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Stored XSS POST proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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