# CVE-2025-66286

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 4.7).

## Description

An API design flaw in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit allows untrusted web content to unexpectedly perform IP connections, DNS lookups, and HTTP requests. Applications expect to use the
WebPage::send-request signal handler to approve or reject all network requests. However, certain types of HTTP requests bypass this signal handler.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-66286
- **Published:** 2026-04-23
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 4.7
- **CWE codes:** CWE-639

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66286

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2025-66286. Retrieved 2026-07-19 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2025-66286. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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