GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-6p6h-rqr6-62mv GI-DocGen vulnerable to Reflected XSS via unescaped query strings
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-11687
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- gi-docgen
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2026-01-27
Affected packages
• PyPI gi-docgen: < 2025.5 → fixed in 2025.5
Description
A flaw was found in GI-DocGen. This vulnerability allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the page — enabling DOM access, session cookie theft and other client-side attacks — via a crafted URL that supplies a malicious value to the q GET parameter (reflected DOM XSS).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-11687 A flaw was found in the gi-docgen. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11687 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11687 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2403536 web
- https://github.com/GNOME/gi-docgen package
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/commit/65d16b8ac178900602da540c8f5df4f52d5e8cf6 web
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi-docgen/-/issues/228 web