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CVE-2025-68942

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-68942 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Gitea versions prior to 1.22.2, specifically within the search input boxes used for creating tags and branches. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, < 1.22.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:jenkins:*:*
< 1.22.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: code.gitea.io/giteaFixed in: 1.22.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-898p-hh3p-hf9rmedium

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

Dec 26, 2025
redhatCVE-2025-68942Moderate

gitea: Gitea: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via search input

Dec 26, 2025

References

blog.gitea.com / release-of-1.22.2
Release Notes
github.com / go-gitea/gitea/pull/31966
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.2
Release Notes