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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2025-62793 EUVD-2025-36380

eLabFTW HTML / CSS Injection via Malicious SVG Upload Leads to Credential Theft / Clickjacking

Published Oct 27, 2025 · Updated Oct 28, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. The application served uploaded SVG files inline. Because SVG supports active content, an attacker could upload a crafted SVG that executes script when viewed, resulting in stored XSS under the application origin. A victim who opens the SVG URL or any page embedding it could have their session hijacked, data exfiltrated, or actions performed on their behalf. This vulnerability is fixed n 5.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elabftw elabftw < 5.3.0 —

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