CVE-2025-59539 (Medium) detected in dotnetnuke.core.9.9.0.nupkg

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CVE-2025-59539 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - dotnetnuke.core.9.9.0.nupkg

Provides basic references to the DotNetNuke.dll to develop extensions for the DNN Platform. For MVC or WebAPI please see other packages available as well

Library home page: https://api.nuget.org/packages/dotnetnuke.core.9.9.0.nupkg

Path to vulnerable library: /Modules/PageSettingsEditor/packages/DotNetNuke.Core.9.9.0/DotNetNuke.Core.9.9.0.nupkg

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ dotnetnuke.core.9.9.0.nupkg (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 8727e4bba1fb8bb6a2721c00a891d080c7f11b90

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, when embedding information in the Biography field, even if that field is not rich-text, users could inject javascript code that would run in the context of the website and to any other user that can view the profile including administrators and/or superusers. This issue has been patched in version 10.1.0.

Publish Date: 2025-09-23

URL: CVE-2025-59539

CVSS 3 Score Details (6.3)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: Low

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: GHSA-7rcc-q6rq-jpcm

Release Date: 2025-09-23

Fix Resolution: DotNetNuke.Core - 10.1.0

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