CVE-2025-23039 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-23039

Cross Site Scripting on URL decode Tooltip in Caido

Vulnerability Description

Caido is a web security auditing toolkit. A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in Caido v0.45.0 due to improper sanitization in the URL decoding tooltip of HTTP request and response editors. This issue could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts, potentially leading to the theft of sensitive information. This issue has been addressed in version 0.45.1 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

caido
Vulnerable Versions:
= 0.45.0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 17th, 2025
Last Modified: January 17th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise
Initial Access
T1059.007 JavaScript
Execution
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
Collection
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Exfiltration
T1491.001 Defacement
Impact