CVE-2025-40709

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  "id": "CVE-2025-40709",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2025-08-29T12:15:32.447",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-18T21:10:00.120",
  "vulnStatus": "Analyzed",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "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”."
    }
  ],
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          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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      "url": "https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas",
      "source": "[email protected]",
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