Gitea vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2025-68946 · BIT-gitea-2025-68946 · GHSA-hq57-c72x-4774 · Published 26/12/2025 · updated 13/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-68946 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting code.gitea.io/gitea, gitea (gitea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.25%, higher than 16.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.20.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
code.gitea.io/gitea Go	`< 1.20.1`	`1.20.1`
gitea gitea	`< 1.20.1`	`1.20.1`

In Gitea before 1.20.1, a forbidden URL scheme such as javascript: can be used for a link, aka XSS.

NVD description

In Gitea before 1.20.1, a forbidden URL scheme such as javascript: can be used for a link, aka XSS.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 1.20.1

1.20.1

< 1.20.1

1.20.1

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