CVE-2025-9208Stored-XSS vulnerability discovered in OpenText WSM Management Server.
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in OpenText™ Web Site Management Server allows Stored XSS. The vulnerability could execute malicious scripts on the client side when the download query parameter is removed from the file URL, allowing attackers to compromise user sessions and data. This issue affects Web Site Management Server: 16.7.X, 16.8, 16.8.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By OpenText
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTextCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:H/U:Red |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:H/U:Red |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
OpenText™ · Web Site Management Server
- affected 16.7.x
- affected 16.8
- affected 16.8.1
What to do
Solution: https://support.opentext.com/csm/en?id=ot_kb_unauthenticated&sysparm_article=KB0854844
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-207638 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-9208)Record last updated .