CVE-2024-56377

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 09 January 2025

Published

09 January 2025

Modified

16 January 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 0.0016 37.2th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-56377 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vanderbilt Redcap. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 37.2th 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

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-53135

Vulnerability details

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in survey titles of REDCap 14.9.6 allows authenticated users to inject malicious scripts into the Survey Title field or Survey Instructions. When a user receives a survey and clicks anywhere on the survey page…

to enter data, the crafted payload (which has been injected into all survey fields) is executed, potentially enabling the execution of arbitrary web scripts.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

attack.mitre.org →

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.

attack.mitre.org →

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

attack.mitre.org →

Why these techniques?

Stored XSS in REDCap enables exploitation of a web application (T1190), arbitrary JavaScript execution in victims' browsers (T1059.007), and stealing web session cookies via injected scripts (T1539).