Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-46996

Medium

Published: 24 October 2024

Published
24 October 2024
Modified
28 October 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0124 79.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-46996 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Basercms Basercms. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 20.4% 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 the Blog posts feature. 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?

XSS vulnerability in baserCMS Blog posts feature (public-facing web application) enables adversaries to exploit public-facing applications for initial access via injected scripts executed in users' browsers.

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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