Medium 6.5Published Nov 25, 2025

CVE-2025-65956Formwork CMS Has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Blog Tags

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 6:40 AM ET)

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Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). Prior to version 2.2.0, inserting unsanitized data into the blog tag field results in stored cross‑site scripting (XSS). Any user with credentials to the Formwork CMS who accesses or edits an affected blog post will have attacker‑controlled script executed in their browser. The issue is persistent and impacts privileged administrative workflows. This issue has been patched in version 2.2.0.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Nov 26, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

getformwork formwork getformwork:formwork (from the name)	before 2.2.0	CNA record
formwork_project formwork formwork_project:formwork	before 2.2.0	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/getformwork/formwork/security/advisories/GHSA-7j46-f57w-76pj	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, third-party-advisory
https://github.com/getformwork/formwork/pull/791	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/getformwork/formwork/commit/4abcd60ae7692b46d316f956b0b20fb85336f3b2	x-refsource-misc, patch

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