Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in OpenAtlas by Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
CVE-2025-40704

5.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Acdh-ch

Status
Openatlas
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 August 2025

What is CVE-2025-40704?

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in OpenAtlas version 8.9.0, developed by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. This vulnerability arises from insufficient validation of user input during a POST request, specifically the '/insert/edition' endpoint using the 'name' parameter. An attacker could exploit this flaw to craft malicious queries that, when executed by an authenticated user, could compromise their session by stealing their session cookie details.

Affected Version(s)

OpenAtlas 8.9.0

References

https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multip...
https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas

CVSS V4

Score:
5.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Attack Required:
None
Privileges Required:
Undefined
User Interaction:
Unknown

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Andrea Intilangelo (acme)
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CVE-2025-40704 : Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in OpenAtlas by Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities