CVE-2025-36223
MediumCVSS 5.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection caused by improper validation of input in HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, or session hijacking.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could exploit header injection to perform XSS, cache poisoning, or session hijacking, potentially leading to data disclosure or unauthorized actions. The vulnerability affects environments using IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1.
Recommendation
Apply the updates or fixes provided by IBM for OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1. Additionally, validate and normalize HOST headers at the proxy or application layer.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM OpenPages
See all- CVE-2025-27368Medium
IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1 is vulnerable to information disclosure of sensitive information due to weaker than expected security for certain REST endpoints used by the OpenPages user interface. An authenticated user is able to obtain certain information about system metadata for areas beyond what the user is intended to view.
- CVE-2025-33110Medium
IBM OpenPages 9.1 and 9.0 with Watson is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
- CVE-2025-36121Medium
IBM OpenPages 9.1 and 9.0 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remotely authenticated attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
Original NVD description (English source)
IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS