CVE-2025-31697 | Formatter Suite - Moderately critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2025-026

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Drupal Formatter Suite allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Formatter Suite: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0.

Published: 2025-03-31 Last update: 2025-09-02 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-31697 is rated Low Risk (28/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.21%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-31697

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.39% 0.21% -0.18%
2 2026-05-11 0.31% 0.39% +0.08%
3 2026-05-09 0.31%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-31697

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.7 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-31697

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-31697

GHSA-5r66-vgc7-2mm3 · Severity: low · Ecosystem: composer — Drupal Formatter Suite Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Link Element Attributes

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-31697

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
formatter_suite_project formatter_suite < 2.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:formatter_suite_project:formatter_suite:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*

References for CVE-2025-31697

URL Tags
https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2025-026 Third Party Advisory
cvelogic Threat Intelligence