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CVE-2024-5520

Cross-Site Scripting stored in Alkacon OpenCMS

Published: May 30, 2024Updated: Apr 23, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-79
6.4MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

Two Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in Alkacon's OpenCMS affecting version 16, which could allow a user with sufficient privileges to create and modify web pages through the admin panel, can execute malicious JavaScript code, after inserting code in the “title” field.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

Alkacon
commercialaka opencms apollo template, open cms, opencms
OpenCMSOn-prem
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.opencms:opencms-core
OSS Libraries
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/cross-site-scripting-stored-alkacon-opencms
incibe.es
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5520
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/alkacon/opencms-core/commit/b05a5aca0f2b03042ddf2b2bb45fe2243a4084a7
github.com
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