# CVE-2025-64758: @dependencytrack/frontend Vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Welcome Message

- Also known as: GHSA-7XVH-C266-CFR5
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/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
- Fixed in: 4.13.6
- Published: 2025-11-17 · Updated: 2025-11-17

## Affected

- DependencyTrack frontend: from 4.12.0, fixed in 4.13.6
- @dependencytrack/frontend (npm): from 4.12.0, fixed in 4.13.6

## Description

@dependencytrack/frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) used in Dependency-Track, an open source Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Since version 4.12.0, Dependency-Track users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can configure a "welcome message", which is HTML that is to be rendered on the login page for branding purposes. When rendering the welcome message, Dependency-Track versions before 4.13.6 did not properly sanitize the HTML, allowing arbitrary JavaScript to be executed. Users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission (i.e., administrators), can exploit this weakness to execute arbitrary JavaScript for users browsing to the login page. The issue has been fixed in version 4.13.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DependencyTrack frontend, @dependencytrack/frontend, upgrade to a fixed version (4.13.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/security/advisories/GHSA-7xvh-c266-cfr5
- https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/pull/1378
- https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/pull/986
- https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/commit/8fd757be612eaf4f35eadbe4c334204d7bd711be

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