# CVE-2024-8407: alwindoss akademy handlers.go cross site scripting

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-04 · Updated: 2024-09-04

## Affected

- alwindoss akademy: version range not reported

## Description

A vulnerability was found in alwindoss akademy up to 35caccea888ed63d5489e211c99edff1f62efdba. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file cmd/akademy/handler/handlers.go. The manipulation of the argument emailAddress leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This product does not use versioning. This is why information about affected and unaffected releases are unavailable.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on alwindoss akademy, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://vuldb.com/?id.276487
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.276487
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.397340
- https://github.com/alwindoss/akademy/issues/1

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