CVE-2024-33527

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Import of Users and login name of user" feature in ILIAS 7 before 7.30 and ILIAS 8 before 8.11 allows remote authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via XML file upload.

Affected products

ILIAS: from 7.0 before 7.30; from 8.0 before 8.11 — fixed in 7.30, 8.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ILIAS 7.30, 8.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://docu.ilias.de/ilias.php?baseClass=illmpresentationgui&cmd=layout&ref_id=1719&obj_id=170029
https://insinuator.net/2024/05/security-advisory-achieving-php-code-execution-in-ilias-elearning-lms-before-v7-30-v8-11-v9-1/
https://docu.ilias.de/ilias.php?baseClass=illmpresentationgui&cmd=layout&ref_id=1719&obj_id=170029
https://insinuator.net/2024/05/security-advisory-achieving-php-code-execution-in-ilias-elearning-lms-before-v7-30-v8-11-v9-1/

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