{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "versions": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "8.9.0"
              }
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "01858a3997af27688e98e160634e887138a7b044"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/craws/openatlas",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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/place\" petition, \"name\" and \"alias-0” parameters.",
  "id": "CVE-2025-40707",
  "modified": "2026-03-10T21:49:41.995643028Z",
  "published": "2025-08-29T12:15:32.037Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}