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CVE-2024-31443: Cacti XSS vulnerability in lib/html_tree.php by reading dirty data stored in database

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. Prior to 1.2.27, some of the data stored in `form_save()` function in `data_queries.php` is not thoroughly checked and is used to concatenate the HTML statement in `grow_right_pane_tree()` function from `lib/html.php` , finally resulting in cross-site scripting. Version 1.2.27 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected products

• cacti: before 1.2.27 — fixed in 1.2.27
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 39

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cacti 1.2.27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/f946fa537d19678f938ddbd784a10e3290d275cf
• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-rqc8-78cm-85j3
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/
• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/f946fa537d19678f938ddbd784a10e3290d275cf
• https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-rqc8-78cm-85j3
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00027.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/

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