CVE-2025-40707 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-40707: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH

Vendor Acdh-Ch
Product OpenAtlas
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published August 29, 2025
Last update August 29, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction —
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 29, 2025 CVE published
August 29, 2025 Record updated