CVE-2025-40708CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2025-40708

Medium · published August 29, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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/event" petition, "name" parameter.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00220 · 11.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2025-08-29T16:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
craws/openatlasall versions—
References (2)
https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas · [email protected]https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 AUG 11:18Z
    Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH
    cvelistv5