# CVE-2024-30268: Cacti XSS vulnerability in display\_settings

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-13 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- cacti: = 1.3.x DEV

## Description

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability on the 1.3.x DEV branch allows attackers to obtain cookies of administrator and other users and fake their login using obtained cookies. This issue is fixed in commit a38b9046e9772612fda847b46308f9391a49891e.

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## References

- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-9m3v-whmr-pc2q
- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/a38b9046e9772612fda847b46308f9391a49891e
- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/08497b8bcc6a6037f7b1aae303ad8f7dfaf7364e/settings.php#L66

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