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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2025-59035 EUVD-2025-27577GHSA-7cf7-9wrr-vrf4PYSEC-2026-1461

Indico vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via LaTeX math code

Published Sep 10, 2025 · Updated Sep 11, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Prior to version 3.3.8, there is a Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability when rendering LaTeX math code in contribution or abstract descriptions. Users should to update to Indico 3.3.8 as soon as possible. As a workaround, only let trustworthy users create content on Indico. Note that a conference doing a Call for Abstracts actively invites external speakers (who the organizers may not know and thus cannot fully trust) to submit content, hence the need to update to a a fixed version ASAP in particular when using such workflows.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
indico indico < 3.3.8 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI indico < 3.3.8 3.3.8 GHSA-7cf7-9wrr-vrf4

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