Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Weakness · CWE-352

CVE-2025-22325

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-07
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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78/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in nchankov Autocompleter autocompleter allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Autocompleter: from n/a through <= 1.3.5.2.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

A CSRF vulnerability in the nchankov Autocompleter component allows authenticated users to be tricked into unknowingly submitting requests that inject malicious JavaScript code, resulting in Stored XSS. The lack of anti-CSRF token validation on state-changing operations enables attackers to craft malicious autocomplete entries that persist malicious scripts.

MitigationImplement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing operations and add proper input validation/output encoding to prevent stored XSS injection through the autocompleter functionality.

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

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

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify nchankov Autocompleter presence
    Search your codebase for files or modules named 'autocompleter', 'Autocompleter', or references to 'nchankov'. Check your dependency manifest (e.g., package.json, composer.json, Gemfile) for the autocompleter component.
    Affected if The nchankov Autocompleter component is found in your dependencies or codebase.
  2. Review autocompleter state-changing endpoints
    Identify all API endpoints or functions that accept user input to create, update, or delete autocomplete entries. Examine the request handlers for these state-changing operations.
    Affected if State-changing operations exist in the autocompleter functionality.
  3. Verify anti-CSRF token implementation
    Inspect the state-changing operations identified in step 2. Check whether each operation validates an anti-CSRF token, session token, or other request validation mechanism before processing the request.
    Affected if No anti-CSRF token validation is found on the autocompleter state-changing operations.
  4. Inspect input handling in autocompleter
    Examine how the autocompleter processes and stores user-supplied input. Look at the data storage layer to see if input is stored as-is or sanitized before persistence.
    Affected if User input is stored without sanitization or encoding, allowing raw JavaScript or script tags to persist.

You are affected if your environment includes the nchankov Autocompleter component AND its state-changing operations lack anti-CSRF token validation AND user input is stored without proper sanitization, enabling stored XSS injection.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing operations and add proper input validation/output encoding to prevent stored XSS injection through the autocompleter functionality.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation8.0 h
  • Testing6.0 h
  • Review / QA4.0 h
22.0 hours of engineering $3,860
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