TI-2025-27176 Aliases CVE-2025-40708 GHSA-pvrh-q8vc-9vpv

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH

LOW 23CWE-79Published 2025-08-29 · Updated 2025-08-29

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Passive
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: None
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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/event" petition, "name" parameter.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.0022 12th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
ACDH-CH	OpenAtlas	8.9.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

OpenAtlas VendorACDH-CH Affected 8.9.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:craws:openatlas:8.9.0:::::::*	8.9.0	Vulnerable	ACDH-CH

cpe:2.3:a:craws:openatlas:8.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8.9.0 Vulnerable ·ACDH-CH

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40708
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvrh-q8vc-9vpv

References

Advisory 1

https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch

Other 1

https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas

TI-2025-32361 Austrian Archaeological Institute (AI) OpenAtlas v8.11.0 as discovered to contain a SQL injection vulnerability. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2025-32360 A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Austrian Archaeological Institute (AI)… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
TI-2025-37855 A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the /overview/network/ endpoint… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
TI-2025-32362 Austrian Archaeological Institute (AI) OpenAtlas v8.11.0 as discovered to contain a hardcoded Administrator password. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-37854 An issue in the size query parameter (/views/file.py) of Austrian Archaeological… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
TI-2025-35336 An issue in Austrian Academy of Sciences (AW) Austrian Archaeological Institute OpenAtlas… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3

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Sources

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