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CVE-2025-66554· NVD / CVE Program· CNA GitHub_M

Nextcloud Contacts vulnerable to Stored XSS in contacts app via organisation and title field

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.25% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: nextcloud security-advisories 5.5.4.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to nextcloud security-advisories 5.5.4 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Contacts app for Nextcloud easily syncs contacts from various devices with your Nextcloud and allows editing. Prior to 5.5.4, 6.0.6, and 7.2.5, a malicious user was able to modify their organisation and title field to load additional CSS files. Javascript and other options were correctly blocked by the content security policy of the Nextcloud Server code. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.5.4, 6.0.6, and 7.2.5.

MediumCVSS 5.4 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 5, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 15th percentile

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Action score

21

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.4
CNA · GitHub_M
3.5
1.9 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
nextcloudcontacts

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • nextcloud contacts5.0.0 and later · before 5.5.4
  • nextcloud contacts6.0.0 and later · before 6.0.6
  • nextcloud contacts7.0.0 and later · before 7.2.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • nextcloud security-advisories

    • >= 7.0.0-alpha.1, < 7.2.5, >= 6.0.0-alpha1, < 6.0.6, < 5.5.4affected

Same product

nextcloud: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2021-39221Nextcloud is an open-source, self-hosted productivity platform.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2020-8281A missing file type check in Nextcloud Contacts 3.3.0 allows a malicious user to upload malicious SVG files to perform cross-site scripting
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2020-8280A missing file type check in Nextcloud Contacts 3.4.0 allows a malicious user to upload SVG files as PNG files to perform cross-site scripti
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2018-3764In Nextcloud Contacts before 2.1.2, a missing sanitization of search results for an autocomplete field could lead to a stored XSS requiring
    19Monitor
  • CVE-2023-33182Nextcloud Contacts photos only sanitized if mime type is all lower case
    17Monitor
  • CVE-2020-8181A missing file type check in Nextcloud Contacts 3.2.0 allowed a malicious user to upload any file as avatars.
    17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
nextcloud security-advisories5.5.4 · descriptionVendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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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.

EPSS, last 120 days

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.

Credits

All researchers

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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

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd-primary

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 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
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.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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