CVE-2024-46996
Published: 24 October 2024
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-2961
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
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
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.