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Documentum Webtop EUVDEUVD-2025-210878

| CVE-2025-3271 MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-09-09 OpenText GHSA-759m-vph2-jm2g
4.8
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: OpenText
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate to Documentum Webtop with low-privilege account
  2. Delivery
    Inject XSS payload into renderable content field
  3. Exploit
    Privileged victim user opens or views the crafted content
  4. Execution
    Malicious script executes in victim's browser context
  5. Impact
    Exfiltrate session token or perform browser-side actions 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 a valid authenticated account in Documentum Webtop (PR:L per CVSS 4.0 vector) - unauthenticated external attackers cannot exploit this directly. A second prerequisite is active victim interaction: a target user must view or open the content containing the injected payload (UI:A). The attacker must have write access to a content field or feature within Webtop that is rendered to other users without output encoding. Exploitation is bounded to the victim's browser session - there is no server-side code execution component from this vulnerability alone. The attack is further limited to environments running Webtop versions prior to 16.7.1.

Impact

The CVSS 4.0 score of 4.8 (Medium) reflects meaningful but constrained risk. The PR:L metric confirms exploitation is limited to authenticated users, eliminating unauthenticated threat actors from the attack surface. The UI:A requirement means passive exploitation is not possible - a victim must actively interact with attacker-crafted content, further reducing automatable exploitation potential. Impact metrics VC:L/VI:L with no availability impact indicate the blast radius is bounded to the victim session rather than the underlying server. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, placing this in the 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' category. Real-world risk is moderate for organizations where Documentum users have varying privilege levels, as an attacker with minimal permissions could target higher-privileged content managers. The OpenText advisory (KB0869472) is restricted to authenticated support portal users, limiting independent verification of exploitation details.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated Documentum Webtop user with basic document-creation privileges injects a JavaScript payload into a document metadata field or comment that is later rendered without encoding. When a higher-privileged user (such as a document manager or administrator) opens or reviews the affected document, the script executes in their browser, capturing their session cookie and forwarding it to an attacker-controlled endpoint. No public proof-of-concept exists, but the attack pattern is consistent with well-understood stored XSS techniques.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 09, 2026

Cross-site scripting in OpenText Documentum Webtop versions prior to 16.7.1 allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts into the application that execute in a victim user's browser upon interaction with attacker-controlled content. The CVSS 4.0 vector (PR:L/UI:A) confirms exploitation requires both a valid account and active victim engagement, constraining the realistic attack surface to insider threats or compromised accounts. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Documentum Webtop version 16.7.1 or later, which resolves the XSS vulnerability per the vendor advisory KB0869472 available at https://support.opentext.com/csm?id=ot_kb_unauthenticated&sysparm_article=KB0869472. If immediate patching is not feasible, compensating controls should include enforcing strict Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers on the Webtop deployment to limit script execution to trusted origins - note this may break legitimate Webtop UI functionality and requires testing. Additionally, restricting write access to content fields to the minimum necessary set of users reduces the population of potential attackers. Input review workflows or approval gates for user-submitted content can also limit attacker-controlled content from reaching other users' sessions.

Affected VersionsENISA

Documentum Webtop 0 <16.7.1

Affected Packages

euvd documentum_webtop fix: 16.7.1

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Documentum Webtop is OpenText's browser-based interface for the EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform, used by large organizations to manage documents and digital assets. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), the canonical XSS root cause, where user-supplied input is not sufficiently sanitized or encoded before being reflected or stored and rendered in HTML context. The affected CPE (cpe:2.3:a:opentext™:documentum_webtop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) covers all versions up to the 16.7.1 fix boundary. The CVSS 4.0 VC:L/VI:L scoring indicates limited per-session impact - consistent with client-side script execution enabling session token theft or unauthorized DOM manipulation within the victim's browser context, without direct server-side compromise.

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Severity by source

Vendor (OpenText) PRIMARY 4.8 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Authenticated attacker (PR:L) injects script requiring victim interaction (UI:R); scope change (S:C) and limited C/I impact are standard for stored/reflected XSS.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (OpenText).

CVSS VectorVendor: OpenText

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Active
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
Low
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Sep 09, 2026 - 10:19 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

Documentum Webtop versions prior to 16.7.1 software is vulnerable to an XSS

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 77% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
enterprise ECM platform, deployed in large organizations only
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

24
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +24
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

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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