CVE-2025-41040
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-09-04
Last updated on: 2025-09-04
Assigner: Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. (INCIBE)
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| apprain | apprain | 4.0.5 |
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Exploitability
| 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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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a stored authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in appRain CMF version 4.0.5. It occurs because the application does not properly validate user input in certain parameters ('data[code]', 'data[lang][0][key]', 'data[lang][0][value]', 'data[lang][1][key]', and 'data[title]') within the /apprain/developer/language/lipsum.xml endpoint. This allows an attacker with authenticated access to inject malicious scripts that are stored and later executed in the context of other users.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The impact of this vulnerability includes the potential execution of malicious scripts in the browsers of users who view the affected content. This can lead to session hijacking, theft of sensitive information, defacement, or other malicious actions performed on behalf of the victim user. Since it requires authenticated access, the attacker must have some level of user privileges to exploit it.