What is CVE-2025-52896?

CVE-2025-52896 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Frappe, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2025-52896?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Frappe

CVE-2025-52896

Frappe is a full-stack web application framework. Prior to versions 14.94.2 and 15.57.0, authenticated users could upload carefully crafted malicious files via Data Import, leading to cross-site scripting (XSS). This issue has been patched in versions 14.94.2 and 15.57.0. There are no workarounds for this issue other than upgrading.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-06-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Frappe — versions < 15.57.0, < 14.94.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/frappe/frappe/security/advisories/GHSA-hv29-66qg-2v6p (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/frappe/frappe/pull/31483 (Issue Tracking)
github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/152fd09de5bca16b8d299d715a1f5df6fca3866f (Patch)
github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/f11c53d4df745b58bd1c1c08e1634a2f5a55322a (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-52896?: CVE-2025-52896 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Frappe, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2025-52896?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.