CVE-2024-57329
Published: 23 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-57329 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Hortusfox Hortusfox. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 30.6th 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-2024-53565
Vulnerability details
HortusFox v3.9 contains a stored XSS vulnerability in the "Add Plant" function. The name input field does not sanitize or escape user inputs, allowing attackers to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript payloads.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS enables injection and execution of arbitrary JavaScript (T1059.007) in victims' browsers upon viewing affected content and represents exploitation of a public-facing web application (T1190).
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.