CVE-2024-46995
Published: 24 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-46995 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Basercms Basercms. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 24.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-3088
Vulnerability details
baserCMS is a website development framework. Versions prior to 5.1.2 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability in HTTP 400 Bad Request. Version 5.1.2 fixes this issue.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The reflected XSS vulnerability in the HTTP 400 Bad Request response of the public-facing baserCMS web application enables unauthenticated remote attackers to inject and execute malicious scripts in users' browsers (with user interaction), directly mapping to T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application.
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.