# 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.

- **Severity:** High 7.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/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:** 23 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fg8c-2pvj-wx3j

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43782?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2024-43782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in openedx-translations

- [CVE-2026-42858](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42858/): Open edX Platform: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in SAML Provider Data Sync Endpoint (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2026-35404](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35404/): Open edX Platform has an Open Redirect in Survey Views via Unvalidated redirect_url Parameter (medium 4.7)
- [CVE-2026-42857](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42857/): Open edX Platform: Stored CSS Injection in Email Notifications via Incomplete HTML Sanitization (medium 4.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-43782 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: openedx-translations. 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-2024-43782/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43782/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43782
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43782
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43782

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43782/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.