CVE-2025-40706

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH

Published Aug 29, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 5.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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/source" petition, "name" parameter.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The vulnerabilities have been fixed by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) team in version 8.10.1, available at https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas .

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-26187 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/source" petition, "name" parameter.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Craws
Craws openatlas
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:craws:openatlas:8.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Craws
Craws openatlas
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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/source" petition, "name" parameter.
Title Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
INCIBE
Published
Updated
Aug 29, 2025, 11:30 AM
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025, 8:38 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Aug 29, 2025, 12:15 PM
Modified
Oct 18, 2026, 9:10 PM