Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH_CVE-2025-40709

5.1 / 10

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

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/person/<ID>” petition, "name" and "alias-0” parameters.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-40709

Source INCIBE

Published Aug 29, 2025 at 11:18

Modified Aug 29, 2025 at 11:50

Affected Product

Vendor ACDH-CH

Product OpenAtlas

Version 8.9.0

Affected Versions ACDH-CH OpenAtlas 8.9.0

CWE Classification

CWE-79

References

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