CVE-2024-45594
Published: 13 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-45594 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Decidim Decidim. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 47.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-3271
Vulnerability details
Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. The meeting embeds feature used in the online or hybrid meetings is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.28.3 and 0.29.0.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
XSS vulnerability in the public-facing Decidim web application's meeting embeds feature (exploitable via malformed URL with low privileges required) enables exploitation of public-facing applications for initial access.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.