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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 10, 2025· Updated Sep 11, 2025

Indico vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via LaTeX math code

CVE-2025-59035

Description

Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Prior to version 3.3.8, there is a Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability when rendering LaTeX math code in contribution or abstract descriptions. Users should to update to Indico 3.3.8 as soon as possible. As a workaround, only let trustworthy users create content on Indico. Note that a conference doing a Call for Abstracts actively invites external speakers (who the organizers may not know and thus cannot fully trust) to submit content, hence the need to update to a a fixed version ASAP in particular when using such workflows.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
indicoPyPI
< 3.3.83.3.8

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