What is CVE-2025-57538?

CVE-2025-57538 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Proxmox Virtual_environment, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2025-57538?

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

XSS in Proxmox Virtual_environment

CVE-2025-57538

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTTP Proxy field within the Datacenter configuration panel of Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) 8.4 allows an authenticated user to inject malicious input. The input is stored and ex…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Proxmox Virtual_environment — versions 8.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-57538?: CVE-2025-57538 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Proxmox Virtual_environment, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2025-57538?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.