What is CVE-2025-68942?

CVE-2025-68942 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2025-68942?

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

XSS in Gitea

CVE-2025-68942

Gitea before 1.22.2 allows XSS because the search input box (for creating tags and branches) is v-html instead of v-text.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-12-26 · 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: 0.002 (14.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 14.4% 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: 0.002 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Gitea — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.22.2/ (Release Notes)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.2 (Release Notes)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/31966 (Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68942?: CVE-2025-68942 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2025-68942?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.