Medium 5.1Published Aug 29, 2025

CVE-2025-40706Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas by ACDH-CH

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 3:23 PM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 5.1 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: INCIBE
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Aug 29, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 18, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

ACDH-CH OpenAtlas acdh_ch:openatlas (from the name)	8.9.0	CNA record
craws openatlas craws:openatlas	8.9.0	NVD

References

References

https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas	product

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