Medium
Gi-docgen: reflected dom xss in gi-docgen
Type: advisorySources: OSV
A flaw was found in the 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).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-11687
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 02:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the 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).
osv:CVE-2025-11687
Complete source record
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