CVE-2025-40709
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Publication date: 2025-08-29

Last updated on: 2025-09-02

Assigner: Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. (INCIBE)

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.
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Published
2025-08-29
Last Modified
2025-09-02
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2026-06-16
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2025-08-29
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-14
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CVE-2025-40709
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craws openatlas 8.9.0
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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in OpenAtlas v8.9.0 caused by inadequate validation of user input in POST requests. Specifically, it affects the '/insert/person/<ID>' endpoint and the 'name' and 'alias-0' parameters. An attacker can send specially crafted queries to an authenticated user, potentially stealing their session cookie details.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of an authenticated user, leading to theft of session cookies. This can result in unauthorized access to the user's session and potentially compromise the user's account and data.

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