CVE-2025-40703

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH

State
Published
Severity
5.1 Medium
Published
Aug 29, 2025
Updated
Aug 29, 2025
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas v8.9.0 from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), due to inadequate validation of user input when a POST request is sent. The vulnerabilities could allow a remote user to send specially crafted queries to an authenticated user and steal their session cookie details, via  the "/insert/group" petition, "name" and "alias-0” parameters.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:NINCIBE

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OpenAtlasACDH-CH
  • 8.9.0Affected

References

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