CVE-2025-40708: Craws Openatlas

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Craws Openatlas: version 8.9.0 only

Published 2025-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.