XSS in Laundry allows to perform an Account Takeover

5.1

Medium

Discovered by 

Carlos Bello

Offensive Team, Fluid Attacks

Summary

Full name

XSS in Laundry 2.3.0 allows to perform an account takeover

Code name

State

Public

Release date

Jul 2, 2025

Affected product

Laundry

Affected version(s)

Version 2.3.0

Vulnerability name

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)

Remotely exploitable

Yes

CVSS v4.0 vector string

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS v4.0 base score

5.1

Exploit available

Yes

Description

Laundry version 2.3.0 allows to perform an account takeover. This is possible because the application is vulnerable to XSS.

Vulnerability

An XSS vulnerability has been identified in laundry. This allows an account takeover to be performed on any user accessing a malicious link.

Exploit

Evidence of exploitation

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID CVE-2025-52842 to refer to this issue from now on.

  1. https://fluidattacks.com/advisories/policy/

System Information

  1. Version: laundry 2.3.0

  2. Operating System: MacOS

Mitigation

There is currently no patch available for this vulnerability.

Credits

The vulnerability was discovered by Carlos Bello from Fluid Attacks' Offensive Team.

References

Vendor page https://github.com/mohaiminur/laundry/

Timeline

Vulnerability discovered

Sep 20, 2023

Vendor contacted

Sep 26, 2023

Public disclosure

Jul 2, 2025

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