CVE-2024-43364 | Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) when creating external links in Cacti

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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.

Published: 2024-10-07 Last update: 2025-11-03 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-43364 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.29%, 90th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-43364

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-43364

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-15 5.43% 5.29% -0.14%
2 2026-05-01 5.29% 5.43% +0.14%
3 2026-04-03 — 5.29% —

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-43364

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.7 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.1 3.6 [email protected]
8.2 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.3 5.3 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-43364

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-43364

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2024-43364: 1 source package rows (cacti); 22 state rows across 4 repos (3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 7, open 15. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-43364
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-43364 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cacti), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-43364
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-43364 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cacti), 10 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 8, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-43364

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-43364

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cacti cacti < 1.2.28 cpe:2.3:a:cacti:cacti:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-43364

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