CVE-2025-40703 (GCVE-0-2025-40703)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-29 11:16 – Updated: 2025-08-29 11:42
VLAI
Title
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH
Summary
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.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-29 11:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
INCIBE CNA under the INCIBE root
CNA scorecard B 85/100 over 122 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ACDH-CH OpenAtlas Affected: 8.9.0
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Date Public
2025-08-28 10:00
Credits
Andrea Intilangelo (acme)
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