5.3
MEDIUM CVSS 4.0
CVE-2025-66459
Lookyloo vulnerable to XSS due to unescaped error message passed to innerHTML
Description

Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other. Prior to 1.35.3, a XSS vulnerability can be triggered when a user submits a list of URLs to capture, one of them contains a HTML element, and the capture fails. Then, the error field is populated with an error message that contains the bad URL they tried to capture, triggering the XSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.3.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 2, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 2, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Update Lookyloo to version 1.35.3 or later to fix the XSS vulnerability.
  • Update Lookyloo to version 1.35.3.
  • Ensure all user-submitted URLs are validated.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Dec. 02, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other. Prior to 1.35.3, a XSS vulnerability can be triggered when a user submits a list of URLs to capture, one of them contains a HTML element, and the capture fails. Then, the error field is populated with an error message that contains the bad URL they tried to capture, triggering the XSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.3.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/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:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added Reference https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/commit/1850a34b8cec52438df3b544295b20cfa35f8ad1
    Added Reference https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/commit/8c3ab96de44c1ce15646d734aa06faf884329116
    Added Reference https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/commit/95cdc00fe37fd89790fa89bb3ee3fefa2da38442
    Added Reference https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/security/advisories/GHSA-hvmh-j2jx-48wg
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Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 5.3
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