CVE-2025-60298

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Oct 8, 2025
Updated: Oct 8, 2025
Reserved: Sep 26, 2025

Description

Novel-Plus up to 5.2.4 was discovered to contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the /author/updateIndexName endpoint. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code through the indexName parameter, which gets stored in the database and executed when other users view the affected book chapter.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/201206030/novel-plus
https://notes.sjtu.edu.cn/s/FB0dX82qf
https://notes.sjtu.edu.cn/s/FB0dX82qf#exploit

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