What is GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q?

GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas v8.9.0 from the Austrian Centre for Digital...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q cover?

GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-40705. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q?

GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65qMediumCVSS 5.4

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas v8.9.0 from the Austrian Centre for Digital...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 29, 2025

Last Modified

October 18, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-40705 →

📋 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/acquisition" petition, "name" parameter.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40705
https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas
https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hj5w-7544-g65q