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4.3Medium

CVE-2025-41228VMware ESXi and vCenter Server Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server; VMware Cloud Foundation; VMware Telco Cloud Platform; VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Published: (1 year ago)

Description

VMware ESXi and vCenter Server contain a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability due to improper input validation. A malicious actor with network access to the login page of certain ESXi host or vCenter Server URL paths may exploit this issue to steal cookies or redirect to malicious websites.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-79

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3se-24659227, 7.0 – < ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x,2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware vCenter Server 8.0 – < 8.0 U3e

References and patches

Recent CVEs in the same product — VMware ESXi / vCenter

2.7Low
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9.8Critical
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9.8Critical
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62%EPSS
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CVE-2026-41724

VMSA-2026-0004: VMware Cloud Foundation Operations updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-41722, CVE-2026-41723 and CVE-2026-41724)

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VMware Cloud Foundation Operations contains multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.A malicious actor with privileges to create policies, views or text-widgets may be able to inject scripts to perform administrative actions in VMware Cloud Founda…