GHSA-6p6h-rqr6-62mv
GI-DocGen vulnerable to Reflected XSS via unescaped query strings
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
A flaw was found in GI-DocGen. This vulnerability allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the page — enabling DOM access, session cookie theft and other client-side attacks — via a crafted URL that supplies a malicious value to the q GET parameter (reflected DOM XSS).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11687
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11687
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403536
- https://github.com/GNOME/gi-docgen
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/commit/65d16b8ac178900602da540c8f5df4f52d5e8cf6
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/issues/228