What is CVE-2025-50986?

CVE-2025-50986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Diskoverdata Diskover, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-08-27.

How severe is CVE-2025-50986?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-50986 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Diskoverdata Diskover

CVE-2025-50986

diskover-web v2.3.0 Community Edition suffers from multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in its administrative settings interface. Various configuration fields such as ES_HOST, ES_INDEXREFRESH, ES_PORT, ES_SCROLLSIZE, ES_TRANSLOGSIZE, ES_TRANSLOGSYNCINT, EXCLUDES_FILES, FILE_TYPES[], INCLUDES_DIRS, INCLUDES_FILES, and TIMEZONE do not properly sanitize user-supplied input. Malicious payloads submitted via these parameters are persisted in the application and executed whenever an administrator views or edits the settings page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Diskoverdata Diskover — versions 2.3.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-50986?: CVE-2025-50986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Diskoverdata Diskover, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-08-27.
How severe is CVE-2025-50986?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-50986 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.