# CVE-2025-57665: CVE-2025-57665

Status: published. Published: 2025-09-09. Updated: 2026-11-07.

Element Plus Link component (el-link) through 2.10.6 implements insufficient input validation for the href attribute, creating a security abstraction gap that obscures URL-based attack vectors. The component passes user-controlled href values directly to underlying anchor elements without protocol validation, URL sanitization, or security headers. This allows attackers to inject malicious URLs using dangerous protocols (javascript:, data:, file:) or redirect users to external malicious sites. While native HTML anchor elements present similar risks, UI component libraries bear additional responsibility for implementing security safeguards and providing clear risk documentation. The vulnerability enables XSS attacks, phishing campaigns, and open redirect exploits affecting applications that use Element Plus Link components with user-controlled or untrusted URL inputs.

## Remediation

- fix: The reporting source identifies this reference as a patch. Check the advisory for affected versions and supported release branches. (source: cve@mitre.org) — https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus/pull/21711

## Affected products and versions

- element-plus / element-plus: ≤ 2.10.6 (affected, custom). Source: NVD

## NVD configuration conditions

Affected CPE matches depend on the following AND/OR and negation conditions:

```json
[
  {
    "negate": false,
    "nodes": [
      {
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:element-plus:element-plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.10.6",
            "vulnerable": true
          }
        ],
        "negate": false,
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ],
    "operator": "OR"
  }
]
```

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 6.4 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N; source: NVD: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation poc; automatable yes; technical impact partial; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

- exploit: https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus/pull/21711 (cve@mitre.org)

## References

- https://element-plus.org/en-US/component/link.html (cve@mitre.org; Product)

- https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus (cve@mitre.org; Product)

- https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus/blob/dev/packages/components/link/src/link.vue (cve@mitre.org; Product)

- https://github.com/element-plus/element-plus/pull/21711 (cve@mitre.org; Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch)

- https://www.npmjs.com/package/element-plus (cve@mitre.org; Product)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57665; retrieved 2026-11-07; source updated 2026-11-07

Revision: b6ee1a0d8845307eddae79e64c69646d541d76f97627dadc3039b9b8913a9524

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2025-57665

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