Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-46995

Medium

Published: 24 October 2024

Published
24 October 2024
Modified
28 October 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0087 75.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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

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

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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

basercms
basercms
≤ 5.1.2

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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