CVE-2025-40709 | BDVDB-2026-291649 Detail

ACDH-CHOpenAtlas

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/person/<ID>” petition, "name" and "alias-0” parameters.

Impact#

Per CVSS v4.0: confidentiality impact none, integrity impact none, availability impact none. Attack vector: network.

Weaknesses#

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

References#

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12025-08-29Record published in the CVE List.

Published

Published: 2025-08-29
Last modified: 2025-08-29

Vendor information

Vendor: ACDH-CH
Product: OpenAtlas

All ACDH-CH vulnerabilities

Score

5.1 Medium

EPSS

less than 1%, Very Low

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. EPSS percentile: 12.6.

KEV

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impact

Cross-Site Scripting

Action

No specific action is recorded in the source data. Check the references for vendor guidance.

Affected Systems

Vulnerable
8.9.0
Fixed
Not stated

Scoring System

CVSS v4.0

5.1 Medium

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

Metric breakdown
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Attack Requirements	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	Passive
Vulnerable System Confidentiality	None
Vulnerable System Integrity	None
Vulnerable System Availability	None
Subsequent System Confidentiality	Low
Subsequent System Integrity	Low
Subsequent System Availability	None

CVSS v3.1

Not available

CVSS v3.0

Not available

CVSS v2

Not available

Source: CVE List v5 (record); CISA KEV (kev, action); FIRST EPSS (epss).