Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2025-31501

Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) 5.0 through 5.0.7 allows XSS via JavaScript injection in an RT permalink.

Published May 28, 2025 · catalog updated May 28, 2025 · RT

Check this week

CVE-2025-31501 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 24.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run RT.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High7.2
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
24.00%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor bestpractical RT 5.0.0 <5.0.8

Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) 5.0 through 5.0.7 allows XSS via JavaScript injection in an RT permalink.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor bestpractical RT 5.0.0 <5.0.85.0.0 <5.0.8

How to fix CVE-2025-31501

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-31501 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 24.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run RT.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with bestpractical RT 5.0.0 <5.0.8 5.0.0 <5.0.8. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 24.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 28, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) 5.0 through 5.0.7 allows XSS via JavaScript injection in an RT permalink.

  2. May 28, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) 5.0 through 5.0.7 allows XSS via JavaScript injection in an RT permalink.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-31501

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-16193

    Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) 5.0 through 5.0.7 allows XSS via JavaScript injection in an RT permalink.

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog May 28, 2025. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.