CVE-2025-53631 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-53631

flaskBlog XSS Vulnerability in postContent

Vulnerability Description

flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In versions 2.8.1 and prior, improper sanitization of postContent when submitting POST requests to /createpost leads to arbitrary JavaScript execution (XSS) on all pages the post is reflected on including /, /post/[ID], /admin/posts, and /user/[ID] of the user that made the post. At time of publication, there are no public patches available.

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

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Affected Software

flaskBlog
Vulnerable Versions:
<= 2.8.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 14th, 2025
Last Modified: August 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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