🛡️ CVE-2025-54414
Description
Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of users' connections using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. In versions 1.21.2 and below, attackers can craft malicious pass-challenge pages that cause a user to execute arbitrary JavaScript code or trigger other nonstandard schemes. An incomplete version of this fix was tagged at 1.21.2 and then the release process was aborted upon final testing. To work around this issue: block any requests to the /.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/api/pass-challenge route with the ?redir= parameter set to anything that doesn't start with the URL scheme http, https, or no scheme (local path redirect). This was fixed in version 1.21.3.
Weakness class
CVE-2025-54414 is classified as CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS). The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream…
Affected software
CVE-2025-54414 is recorded against 1 package.
- unknown
Timeline and source
Published on 26 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
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Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| unknown | — | — |
References
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