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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2025-27518

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

Cognita is a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Framework for building modular, open source applications for production by TrueFoundry. An insecure CORS configuration in the Cognita backend server allows arbitrary websites to send cross site requests to the application. This vulnerability is fixed in commit 75079c3d3cf376381489b9a82ee46c69024e1a15.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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  • Published