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Lookyloo vulnerable to XSS due to unescaped error message passed to innerHTML

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other. Prior to 1.35.3, a XSS vulnerability can be triggered when a user submits a list of URLs to capture, one of them contains a HTML element, and the capture fails. Then, the error field is populated with an error message that contains the bad URL they tried to capture, triggering the XSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.3.

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CVEs
CVE-2025-66459
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6 Nov 2026, 19:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Lookyloo vulnerable to XSS due to unescaped error message passed to innerHTML

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Dec 2025, 18:32 UTC

Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other. Prior to 1.35.3, a XSS vulnerability can be triggered when a user submits a list of URLs to capture, one of them contains a HTML element, and the capture fails. Then, the error field is populated with an error message that contains the bad URL they tried to capture, triggering the XSS. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.3.

osv:CVE-2025-66459
Complete source record
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