FKIE_CVE-2025-9222

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-09 10:15 - Updated: 2026-01-22 17:20
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.2.2 before 18.5.5, 18.6 before 18.6.3, and 18.7 before 18.7.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to achieve stored cross-site scripting by exploiting GitLab Flavored Markdown.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/01/07/patch-release-gitlab-18-7-1-released/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/562561Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3297483Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab 18.7.0
gitlab gitlab 18.7.0
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