Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2025· Updated Aug 29, 2025
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH
CVE-2025-40706
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/source" petition, "name" parameter.
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Affected products
2=8.9.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: =8.9.0
- (no CPE)range: 8.9.0
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