Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Administrative Console Context
Unsanitized user-supplied data saved in the PingFederate Administrative Console could trigger the execution of JavaScript code in subsequent user processing.
- Published
- Jun 15, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 29th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-79
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Report tools
Action score
27
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.9 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · Ping Identity
- 6.9
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/S:P/AU:N/R:U/RE:M/U:Red
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Ping Identity). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Ping Identity PingFederate
- 12.1.0 and later · up to and including 12.1.4affected
- 12.0.0 and later · up to and including 12.0.6affected
- 11.3.0 and later · up to and including 11.3.9affected
- 11.2.0 and later · up to and including 11.2.10affected
Same product
ping identity: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-20773Improper Authorization in PingFederate Administrative Expression Evaluation Endpoint34Monitor
- CVE-2025-22854Possible thread exhaustion from processing http responses in PingFederate Google Adapter27Monitor
- CVE-2023-40148PingFederate Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability26Monitor
- CVE-2025-32736PingFederate Administrative Console CSRF weaknesses19Monitor
- CVE-2024-21832PingFederate REST API Data Store Injection14Monitor
- CVE-2025-21085PingFederate OAuth Grant attribute duplication may use excessive memory8Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- A
- Scope
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:X/RE:M/U:Red
nvd-secondary
Root cause
User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-79 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;Fixed
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
We don't hand-write analysis for all 385,000+ vulnerabilities; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.
We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/12.1/release_notes/pf_release_notes.html
- www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingfederate.html
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.