Oct8ne Chatbot CVE-2025-11952
MEDIUMAttack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAccess Oct8ne chat/transcript function
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DeliveryInject malicious script into transcript
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ExploitTrigger summary email via /Records/SendSummaryMail
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ExecutionVictim opens transcript in browser
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PersistStored JavaScript executes in victim context
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ImpactSteal session cookies or act as victim
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an attacker to inject a payload specifically during creation of a chat transcript that is subsequently distributed via the /Records/SendSummaryMail summary-email feature in Oct8ne Chatbot v2.3; the Records/SendSummaryMail transcript-to-email workflow must therefore be in use. Execution is limited by required user interaction (UI:P) - a victim (e.g., an agent or email recipient) must open or render the stored transcript/email in a browser for the script to fire - and impact is confined to the victim's browser session (session-cookie theft, actions on the user's behalf) with no direct impact on the server/application's own confidentiality, integrity, or availability (VC/VI/VA:N). |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity stored XSS (CVSS 4.0 base 5.3, CWE-79) with multiple signals pointing to limited real-world urgency rather than a top priority. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N) shows network reach with low complexity and no privileges required (PR:N), but exploitation depends on passive user interaction (UI:P) and the direct vulnerable-system impact metrics are all None - the harm lands only on the subsequent system (the victim's browser), reflected in SC:L/SI:L. EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization. Net assessment: a credible but modest-impact client-side flaw affecting a niche product; treat as a routine-patch item rather than an emergency. Note one tension to verify: PR:N implies the attacker can create the triggering transcript without authentication, yet transcript/summary-email generation (/Records/SendSummaryMail) often sits behind an operator or chat-session context - confirm with the vendor whether transcript creation is truly unauthenticated. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker injects a malicious JavaScript payload while creating a chat transcript, which is then delivered through the /Records/SendSummaryMail summary-email function. When an operator or recipient opens or renders the resulting transcript/email in their browser, the stored payload executes, allowing theft of session cookies or actions performed on the victim's behalf. No public exploit code is identified, and successful execution requires the victim to view the crafted content (UI:P). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Oct8ne Chatbot v2.3 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject a JavaScript payload into a chat transcript that is subsequently distributed by the /Records/SendSummaryMail summary-email feature, causing the script to run in the browser of any recipient who opens or renders the poisoned transcript. Impact is limited to the victim's browser session - session-cookie theft or actions carried out on the victim's behalf - and requires the target to render the stored content (UI:P), with no effect on the server-side confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the application itself. EPSS is only 0.19% (8th percentile), no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the CVE is not in CISA KEV, so this is a medium-severity issue with limited real-world urgency rather than a top-priority patch item.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis - no fix version is stated in the supplied data, so the first action is to confirm status with Oct8ne and monitor the INCIBE advisory at https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-oct8ne-chatbot for an updated release. Until a patched version ships, apply compensating controls: if the transcript-email function is not operationally required, disable or block access to the /Records/SendSummaryMail endpoint (trade-off: loss of automated transcript delivery to customers/agents, which should be replaced by an in-app, sanitized view); enforce server-side output encoding or HTML sanitization of all transcript fields before they are rendered into the summary email or any web view (trade-off: requires code changes or a reverse-proxy/WAF response-rewrite rule, which can be bypassed if encoding is incomplete); and deploy a strict Content-Security-Policy on the application with script-src restricted to trusted origins to blunt script execution (trade-off: may break legitimate third-party chat widgets and inline scripts, requiring testing). Additional hardening includes restricting who can trigger transcript creation and delivery, and configuring mail clients to render HTML with script execution blocked. Note that these controls reduce exploitability but do not remove the underlying stored-XSS defect, so upgrading to a vendor-fixed version remains the only complete remediation.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation / cross-site scripting) in its stored variant: attacker-controlled content entered during transcript creation is persisted by the Oct8ne Chatbot v2.3 application and later re-rendered without adequate HTML/JavaScript encoding when the transcript summary is generated and emailed through the /Records/SendSummaryMail endpoint. Because the payload is stored server-side and delivered later to a different set of users (support agents, transcript recipients), the attack is asynchronous and does not require the attacker to be present at execution time. The affected component is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:oct8ne:chatbot:2.3, and the INCIBE advisory (cve-coordination@incibe.es coordination) is the sole reference. The vendor's CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N) characterizes this as a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated issue whose consequences are scored only against subsequent systems (SC:L/SI:L) - i.e., the victim's browser - consistent with the independent assessment (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). Practical exploitation is constrained by rendering context: script execution depends on the transcript/email being opened in a browser context that does not sanitize or block the injected markup, and many mail clients strip active content, which materially reduces the exposed population.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Payload injected without privileges (PR:N) over the network but executes only after a victim views the transcript (UI:R); stored XSS crosses into the browser (S:C) with low confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (incibe).
CVSS VectorVendor: incibe
DescriptionCVE.org
Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Oct8ne Chatbot v2.3. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute JavaScript code in the victim's browser by injecting a malicious payload through the creation of a transcript that is sent by email. This vulnerability can be exploited to steal sensitive user data, such as session cookies, or to perform actions on behalf of the user, through /Records/SendSummaryMail.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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