Vulnerability · Published Feb 20, 2025 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2024-49337IBM OpenPages HTML injection

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in OpenPages with Watson from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 19% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages is vulnerable to HTML injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input of text fields used to construct workflow email notifications. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using HTML tags in a text field of an object to inject malicious script into an email which would be executed in a victim's mail client within the security context of the OpenPages mail message. An attacker could use this for phishing or identity theft attacks.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	OpenPages with Watson	8.39.0

Weakness: CWE-80 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183541 vendor-advisory, patch