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DNN affected by Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Profile Biography field

Type: advisorySources: OSV

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, when embedding information in the Biography field, even if that field is not rich-text, users could inject javascript code that would run in the context of the website and to any other user that can view the profile including administrators and/or superusers. This issue has been patched in version 10.1.0.

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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-59539
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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5 Nov 2026, 02:09 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DNN affected by Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Profile Biography field

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Sept 2025, 17:41 UTC

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, when embedding information in the Biography field, even if that field is not rich-text, users could inject javascript code that would run in the context of the website and to any other user that can view the profile including administrators and/or superusers. This issue has been patched in version 10.1.0.

osv:CVE-2025-59539
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59539",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DNN affected by Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Profile Biography field",
    "summary": "DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. Prior to version 10.1.0, when embedding information in the Biography field, even if that field is not rich-text, users could inject javascript code that would run in the context of the website and to any other user that can view the profile including administrators and/or superusers. This issue has been patched in version 10.1.0.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-59539",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.672462086Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/security/advisories/GHSA-7rcc-q6rq-jpcm",
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