CVE-2024-55040
Published: 21 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-55040 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sensaphone Web600 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 29.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-54806
Vulnerability details
Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Sensaphone WEB600 Monitoring System v.1.6.5.H and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted GET requests to /@.xml, placing payloads in the g7200, g7300, g4601, and g1F02 parameters.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS enables low-privileged authenticated attackers to inject JavaScript payloads that execute when higher-privileged users (e.g., admins) view affected pages, facilitating exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068) via theft of web session cookies (T1539).
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.