CVE-2025-68942 - OpenCVE

Gitea before 1.22.2 allows XSS because the search input box (for creating tags and branches) is v-html instead of v-text.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitea	Gitea

No data.

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.22.2/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/31966
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68942
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68942

History

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		gitea: Gitea: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via search input
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68942 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68942
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	threat_severity `Moderate`

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Gitea before 1.22.2 allows XSS because the search input box (for creating tags and branches) is v-html instead of v-text.
First Time appeared		Gitea Gitea gitea
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitea Gitea gitea
References		https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.22.2/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/31966 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.2
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-12-26T02:50:35.144Z

Updated: 2025-12-26T19:30:04.360Z

Reserved: 2025-12-26T02:50:34.878Z

Link: CVE-2025-68942

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-26T19:29:59.389Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-26T03:15:51.117

Modified: 2025-12-26T03:15:51.117

Link: CVE-2025-68942

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-12-26T02:50:35Z

Links: CVE-2025-68942 - Bugzilla

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