Riskcovery

CVE-2025-68115

Parse Server vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Unescaped Mustache Template Variables

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Dec 16, 2025
Reserved
Dec 15, 2025

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Description

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. In versions prior to 8.6.1 and 9.1.0-alpha.3, a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Parse Server's password reset and email verification HTML pages. The patch, available in versions 8.6.1 and 9.1.0-alpha.3, escapes user controlled values that are inserted into the HTML pages. No known workarounds are available.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
parse-serverparse-community
  • < 8.6.1Affected
  • >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.0-alpha.3Affected

References

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