CVE-2025-40702
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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/file" petition, "creator" and "license_holder" parameters.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.1
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2025-08-29 12:15:30.423000
Last modified
2026-10-18 21:10:00.120000
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