Affects widely-used GitHub Enterprise Server; XSS could exfiltrate data via search UI, impacting many organizations.
CVE-2025-13744
XSS in GitHub Enterprise Server filter renders attacker-controlled HTML.
Is CVE-2025-13744 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2025-13744 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.21% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2025-13744?
CVE-2025-13744 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.4. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-13744?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-13744. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-13744 affect?
CVE-2025-13744 affects GitHub Enterprise Server < 3.20. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2025-13744?
Upgrade to fixed version 3.19.1 or newer ASAP
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Exfiltration of sensitive data via stored XSS in the search/filter UI; requires edit-permissions on milestones/issues/PRs.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 3.14.0 and <= 3.14.19
- affected>= 3.15.0 and <= 3.15.14
- affected>= 3.16.0 and <= 3.16.10
- affected>= 3.17.0 and <= 3.17.7
- affected>= 3.18.0 and <= 3.18.1
- affected>= 3.19 and <= 3.19.0
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.