# Kibana 8.18.8, 8.19.4, 9.0.7, 9.1.4 Security Update (ESA-2025-16)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-8-8-19-4-9-0-7-9-1-4-security-update-esa-2025-16/382450>\
**Category:** Security Announcements\
**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-8-8-19-4-9-0-7-9-1-4-security-update-esa-2025-16/382450 "2025-10-06T16:24:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-8-8-19-4-9-0-7-9-1-4-security-update-esa-2025-16/382450/1 "2025-10-06T16:24:59Z")

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**Kibana Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) (ESA-2025-16)**

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Vega visualizations in Kibana can lead to Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS)

**Affected Versions:**

- **7.x:** All versions from 7.0.0 and up to and including 7.17.29
- **8.x:** All versions from 8.0.0 and up to and including 8.18.7
- **8.19.x:** All versions from 8.19.0 and up to and including 8.19.3
- **9.0.x:** All versions from 9.0.0 and up to and including 9.0.6
- **9.1.x:** All versions from 9.1.0 and up to and including 9.1.3

**Affected Configurations:**

All Kibana configurations are affected.

**Solutions and Mitigations:**

Users should upgrade to version 8.18.8 or 8.19.4 or 9.0.7 or 9.1.4.

**For Users that Cannot Upgrade:**

If you are unable to upgrade, you can select to disable Vega visualizations :

**Self-hosted**

For on premise installations, you can set `vis_type_vega.enabled: false` in `kibana.yml` file. Note that this will disable all Vega charts in Kibana.

**Cloud**

For Elastic Cloud services deployments, you can reach out to Elastic Support to request that vega visualizations are disabled in your deployments.

**Severity:** CVSSv3.1: 8.2 (High) - [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3-1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N)

**CVE ID** : CVE-2025-25017

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