CVE-2024-43972: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') in Pagelayer Team PageLayer
CVE-2024-43972 is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PageLayer product by Pagelayer Team affecting versions up to 1. 8. 7. It involves improper neutralization of input during web page generation, allowing an attacker with high privileges and user interaction to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability has a medium severity with a CVSS score of 5. 9. No official patch or remediation guidance is currently available from the vendor. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability (CVE-2024-43972) in PageLayer allows stored XSS due to improper input neutralization during web page generation. It affects versions through 1.8.7 and requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit. The CVSS 3.1 vector indicates network attack vector, low attack complexity, high privileges required, and user interaction needed, with impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability rated as low to low and low respectively. No patch or official remediation level has been disclosed by the vendor as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker with high privileges to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of other users, potentially leading to data disclosure, modification, or disruption of service. The impact is rated medium severity with limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is released, restrict high privilege access to trusted users only and apply standard input validation and output encoding where possible to mitigate stored XSS risks. Monitor vendor communications for updates on patches or official mitigations.
CVE-2024-43972: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') in Pagelayer Team PageLayer
Description
CVE-2024-43972 is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PageLayer product by Pagelayer Team affecting versions up to 1. 8. 7. It involves improper neutralization of input during web page generation, allowing an attacker with high privileges and user interaction to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability has a medium severity with a CVSS score of 5. 9. No official patch or remediation guidance is currently available from the vendor. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability (CVE-2024-43972) in PageLayer allows stored XSS due to improper input neutralization during web page generation. It affects versions through 1.8.7 and requires high privileges and user interaction to exploit. The CVSS 3.1 vector indicates network attack vector, low attack complexity, high privileges required, and user interaction needed, with impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability rated as low to low and low respectively. No patch or official remediation level has been disclosed by the vendor as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an attacker with high privileges to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of other users, potentially leading to data disclosure, modification, or disruption of service. The impact is rated medium severity with limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is released, restrict high privilege access to trusted users only and apply standard input validation and output encoding where possible to mitigate stored XSS risks. Monitor vendor communications for updates on patches or official mitigations.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Patchstack
- Date Reserved
- 2024-08-18T21:57:00.731Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 69f165decbff5d86104b6253
Added to database: 4/29/2026, 1:58:54 AM
Last enriched: 4/29/2026, 2:37:26 AM
Last updated: 4/29/2026, 3:17:30 AM
Views: 2
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