Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48706

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 22 October 2024

Published
22 October 2024
Modified
25 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48706 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in O-Dyn Collabtive. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 44.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Collabtive 3.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site scripting (XSS) via the title parameter with action=add or action=editform within the (a) managemessage.php file and (b) managetask.php file respectively.

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 stored XSS vulnerability in the Collabtive web application enables attackers to inject and execute malicious JavaScript in users' browsers via public-facing endpoints, mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications.

Affected Assets

o-dyn
collabtive
3.1

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.

References