CVE-2024-43782 openedx-translations's Atlas translations for Open edX missing validation
Missing validation in Open edX translation files allows attackers to inject malicious scripts via malformed translations, potentially leading to code execution.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-43782?
CVE-2024-43782 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in openedx-translations, published on 23 Aug 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
This openedx-translations repository contains translation files from Open edX repositories to be kept in sync with Transifex. Before moving to pulling translations from the openedx-translations repository via openedx-atlas, translations in the edx-platform repository were validated using edx-i18n-tools. This validation included protection against malformed translations and translations-based script injections. Prior to this patch, the validation implemented in the openedx-translations repository did not include the same protections. The maintainer inspected the translations in the edx-platform directory of both the main and open-release/redwood.master branches of the openedx-translations repository and found no evidence of exploited translation strings.
Weakness: CWE-74
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43782?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openedx Openedx.
How do I fix CVE-2024-43782?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-43782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-43782 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43782 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2026-42858 Open edX Platform: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in SAML Provider Data Sync Endpoint
- CVE-2026-35404 Open edX Platform has an Open Redirect in Survey Views via Unvalidated redirect_url Parameter
- CVE-2026-42857 Open edX Platform: Stored CSS Injection in Email Notifications via Incomplete HTML Sanitization
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fg8c-2pvj-wx3j.