🛡️ CVE-2024-43364 — cacti

🟡 CVSS 5.7 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD

5.7

CVSS Score

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Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. The title parameter is not properly sanitized when saving external links in links.php . Morever, the said title parameter is stored in the database and reflected back to user in index.php, finally leading to stored XSS. Users with the privilege to create external links can manipulate the title parameter in the http post request while creating external links to perform stored XSS attacks. The vulnerability known as XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) occurs when an application allows untrusted user input to be displayed on a web page without proper validation or escaping. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.2.28. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-43364 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-43364 is recorded against 1 package.

cacti (fixed in 1.2.28)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 October 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
lists.debian.org

CVE-2024-43364 on other distributions

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Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.7

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-79

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2024-10-07

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
cacti	—	1.2.28

References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-fgc6-g8gc-wcg5

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00010.html

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