{"id":78630,"date":"2026-05-19T16:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40901-html-injection-in-credentials-manager-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:19:45","slug":"cve-2025-40901-html-injection-in-credentials-manager-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40901-html-injection-in-credentials-manager-in-guardian-cmc-before-26-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40901 &#8211; HTML injection in Credentials Manager in Guardian\/CMC before 26.1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2025-40901<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 19, 2026, 1:19 p.m. | 39\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :A Stored HTML Injection vulnerability was discovered in the Credentials Manager functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with administrative privileges can define a malicious identity containing HTML tags. When a victim attempts to delete the affected identity, the injected HTML renders in their browser, enabling phishing and possibly open redirect attacks. Full XSS exploitation and direct information disclosure are prevented by the existing input validation and Content Security Policy configuration.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 5.9 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2025-40901 Published : May 19, 2026, 1:19 p.m. | 39\u00a0minutes ago Description :A Stored HTML Injection vulnerability was discovered in the Credentials Manager functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with administrative privileges can define a malicious identity containing HTML tags. When a victim attempts to delete the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}