CVE-2025-40709

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.

CVSS v3 5.4 MEDIUM

5.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.3 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas	Product
https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:craws:openatlas:8.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

18 Oct 2026, 21:10

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary		(es) Vulnerabilidad de cross-site scripting (XSS) en OpenAtlas v8.9.0 del Centro Austriaco para las Humanidades Digitales y el Patrimonio Cultural (ACDH-CH), debido a una validación inadecuada de la entrada del usuario cuando se envía una solicitud POST. Las vulnerabilidades podrían permitir a un usuario remoto enviar consultas especialmente diseñadas a un usuario autenticado y robar los detalles de su cookie de sesión, a través de la petición “/insert/person/<ID>”, los parámetros “name” y “alias-0”.

Information

Published : 2025-08-29 12:15

Updated : 2026-10-18 21:10

NVD link : CVE-2025-40709

Mitre link : CVE-2025-40709

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-40709

JSON object : View

Products Affected

craws

openatlas

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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