CVE-2025-52652: HCL MyXalytics Content Spoofing Flaw

CVE-2025-52652 Overview

HCL MyXalytics contains a content spoofing vulnerability that allows attackers to manipulate displayed content within the application. The manipulated content appears to originate from a trusted source, enabling social engineering attacks against authenticated users. Exploitation can facilitate phishing campaigns or data theft by tricking users into interacting with attacker-controlled content presented under the application's trusted context. The weakness is tracked under CWE-451 (User Interface Misrepresentation of Critical Information).

Critical Impact
Attackers with low-privilege access can inject spoofed content that misleads users into disclosing credentials or sensitive data through phishing scenarios delivered inside a trusted HCL MyXalytics interface.

Affected Products

HCL MyXalytics

Discovery Timeline

2026-09-07 - CVE-2025-52652 published to the National Vulnerability Database
2026-09-08 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-52652

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability enables an authenticated attacker to inject or manipulate content rendered by HCL MyXalytics. Because the manipulated content appears within the trusted application interface, users cannot easily distinguish legitimate output from attacker-controlled content. The flaw supports phishing and data theft workflows that leverage the application's brand and session context.

Exploitation requires network access, low privileges, and user interaction. The impact is scoped to integrity, with no direct effect on confidentiality or availability of the underlying system. However, secondary impact through credential theft or fraudulent instructions can extend well beyond the application boundary.

Root Cause

The root cause aligns with CWE-451: the application renders user-influenced content without sufficient contextual separation or validation. Trusted UI elements and untrusted input share the same visual context, so attackers can craft content that misrepresents authorship or intent.

Attack Vector

An authenticated attacker submits crafted input that is later reflected or persisted in an area of the interface consumed by other users. When a victim views the affected screen, the spoofed content appears as legitimate application output. Attackers typically use this to display fake notices, forged links, or fraudulent instructions that direct users to attacker-controlled destinations.

No verified proof-of-concept code is publicly available. See the HCL Software Knowledge Base Article for vendor-provided technical details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-52652

Indicators of Compromise

User reports of unexpected messages, notices, or links displayed within HCL MyXalytics that reference credential resets, urgent actions, or external destinations.
Application logs showing input submissions containing HTML, script fragments, or unusual formatting characters in fields that render back to other users.
Outbound web traffic from user sessions to newly registered or low-reputation domains immediately after MyXalytics usage.

Detection Strategies

Review MyXalytics user-submitted content for markup, encoded characters, or embedded URLs that deviate from expected input patterns.
Correlate authentication events with content-modification events to identify low-privileged accounts producing content viewed by many users.
Monitor for phishing-style language patterns in stored application data using data loss prevention or content inspection tooling.

Monitoring Recommendations

Ingest HCL MyXalytics application and web server logs into a centralized analytics platform for query and correlation.
Alert on anomalous submission volume or unusual field content from individual accounts.
Track user-reported phishing incidents that reference internal applications to identify spoofed content early.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-52652

Immediate Actions Required

Apply the vendor fix documented in the HCL Software Knowledge Base Article as soon as it is available for your deployment.
Audit MyXalytics user accounts and disable inactive or unnecessary low-privilege accounts that could stage spoofed content.
Notify users that phishing content may appear inside trusted internal applications and reinforce reporting procedures.

Patch Information

HCL has published remediation guidance in HCL Knowledge Base article KB0132828. Administrators should consult the article for fixed versions and upgrade procedures specific to their MyXalytics deployment.

Workarounds

Restrict content-authoring privileges within MyXalytics to trusted roles until the patch is applied.
Enforce input review workflows for fields whose content is rendered to other users.
Deploy web application firewall rules that block HTML markup and script fragments in submission fields not expected to contain formatted content.

bash

# Example WAF rule concept - block HTML tags in submission fields
# Adapt to your WAF syntax and MyXalytics endpoint paths
SecRule ARGS "@rx <(script|iframe|a\s+href|img|form)" \
  "id:1005265,phase:2,deny,status:403,log,msg:'MyXalytics content spoofing attempt'"