CVE-2024-37394

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: 2025-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Project Dashboards of REDCap 13.1.9 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary web script or HTML by injecting a crafted payload into the 'Dashboard title' and 'Dashboard content' text boxes. This can lead to the execution of malicious scripts when the dashboard is viewed. Users are recommended to update to version 14.2.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Affected products

Vanderbilt REDCap: before 14.2.1 — fixed in 14.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Vanderbilt REDCap 14.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.evms.edu/research/resources_services/redcap/redcap_change_log/
https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-redcap-cve-2024-37394-cve-2024-37395-and-cve-2024-37396/
https://www.trustwave.com/hubfs/Web/Library/Advisories_txt/TWSL2024-003_XSS_REDCap_1.txt
https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-redcap-cve-2024-37394-cve-2024-37395-and-cve-2024-37396/

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