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Cisco XE: CVE-2025-20240: Cisco IOS XE Software Web Authentication Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 24, 2025
Added
Sep 25, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the Web Authentication feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting attack (XSS) on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to click a malicious link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute a reflected XSS attack and steal user cookies from the affected device.

Solution

cisco-xe-update-latest
Title
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