CVE-2025-62793: Elabftw

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. The application served uploaded SVG files inline. Because SVG supports active content, an attacker could upload a crafted SVG that executes script when viewed, resulting in stored XSS under the application origin. A victim who opens the SVG URL or any page embedding it could have their session hijacked, data exfiltrated, or actions performed on their behalf. This vulnerability is fixed n 5.3.0.

Affected products

• Elabftw Elabftw: before 5.3.0 (fixed in 5.3.0)

Published 2025-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.