CVE-2025-20385

Stored Cross-Site scripting (XSS) through Anchor Tag "href" in Navigation Bar Collections in Splunk Enterprise

Severity
Low 2.4
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.003
18.9th percentile
Discovered by
Not disclosed
Published
Dec 3, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.2, 9.4.6, 9.3.8, and 9.2.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.1.2507.6, 10.0.2503.7, and 9.3.2411.117, a user who holds a role with a high privilege capability `admin_all_objects` could craft a malicious payload through the href attribute of an anchor tag within a collection in the navigation bar, which could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.

Weakness: CWE-79

Affected products

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Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Splunk · Splunk Enterprise
  • Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform

Credit

Dr. Oliver Matula, DB Systel GmbH