Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Web UI XSS via Unauth Input
CVE-2025-20216 Published on May 7, 2025

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Reflected HTML Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject HTML into the browser of an authenticated user. This vulnerability is due to improper sanitization of input to the web interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing an authenticated user to click a malicious link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject HTML into the browser of an authenticated Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager user.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-20216 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
LOW
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

What is an Injection Vulnerability?

The software constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Software has certain assumptions about what constitutes data and control respectively. It is the lack of verification of these assumptions for user-controlled input that leads to injection problems. Injection problems encompass a wide variety of issues -- all mitigated in very different ways and usually attempted in order to alter the control flow of the process. For this reason, the most effective way to discuss these weaknesses is to note the distinct features which classify them as injection weaknesses. The most important issue to note is that all injection problems share one thing in common -- i.e., they allow for the injection of control plane data into the user-controlled data plane. This means that the execution of the process may be altered by sending code in through legitimate data channels, using no other mechanism. While buffer overflows, and many other flaws, involve the use of some further issue to gain execution, injection problems need only for the data to be parsed. The most classic instantiations of this category of weakness are SQL injection and format string vulnerabilities.

CVE-2025-20216 has been classified to as an Injection vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-20216

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Affected Versions

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.13%
Percentile
32.04%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.