# CVE-2018-25050: Harvest Chosen abstract-chosen.coffee AbstractChosen cross site scripting

- Also known as: GHSA-X5Q4-M45M-FM94
- Severity: CVSS 3.5 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.7
- Published: 2022-12-28 · Updated: 2025-04-10

## Affected

- Harvest Chosen: 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6
- harvesthq/chosen (Packagist): fixed in 1.8.7

## Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Harvest Chosen up to 1.8.6. Affected by this issue is the function AbstractChosen of the file coffee/lib/abstract-chosen.coffee. The manipulation of the argument group_label leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.8.7 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 77fd031d541e77510268d1041ed37798fdd1017e. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216956.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Harvest Chosen, harvesthq/chosen, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.7) per the references below.
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## References

- https://vuldb.com/?id.216956
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216956
- https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/pull/2997
- https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/commit/77fd031d541e77510268d1041ed37798fdd1017e
- https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/releases/tag/v1.8.7

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