# CVE-2024-28761: IBM App Connect Enterprise HTML injection

> Remote attackers can inject malicious HTML executed in victims' browsers, compromising the security context of the hosting site.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 May 2024
- **Updated:** 13 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rrxx-mf3x-75gw

## What is CVE-2024-28761?

CVE-2024-28761 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in IBM App Connect Enterprise, published on 11 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

IBM App Connect Enterprise 11.0.0.1 through 11.0.0.25 and 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.0 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.  IBM X-Force ID:  285245.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28761?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm App Connect Enterprise.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-28761?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-28761 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-28761 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28761 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise

- [CVE-2026-15435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-15435/): IBM App Connect Enterprise is vulnerable to arbitrary file write vulnerability (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-22317](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22317/): IBM App Connect Enterprise denial of service (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-75624](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75624/): IBM App Connect Enterprise is vulnerable to privilege escalation and Denial of Service (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-14522](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14522/): IBM App Connect Enterprise is vulnerable to an arbitrary file read and arbitrary changes to configuration settings (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-81832](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-81832/): IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS Adapter nodes are vulnerable to multiple CVEs (high 7.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-28761 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-28761 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in IBM App Connect Enterprise, published on 11 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28761 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM App Connect Enterprise. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-28761/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-28761/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28761
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28761
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-28761

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.