CVE-2025-40703

low-risk
Published 2025-08-29

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/group" petition, "name" and "alias-0” parameters.

Do I need to act?

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0.03% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.4/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Openatlas

Affected Vendors

Craws

References (2)

Product https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas
Third Party Advisory https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting...
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low-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal