CVE-2024-54397
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in antonio.gocaj Go Animate goanimate allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Go Animate: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Go Animate allows attackers to trick authenticated users into executing unintended requests that result in Stored XSS payloads being saved to the application. This combines two vulnerabilities where CSRF enables the injection of malicious scripts that persist and execute when other users view the compromised content.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Go Animate installationSearch for Go Animate files, services, or web applications running on the environment. Check for directories or processes containing 'goanimate' or 'animate' in the name, or look for the application's login page or admin interface accessible via browser or network scan.Affected if Go Animate software is found running in the environment.
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Verify CSRF token presence in state-changing formsLocate forms that submit content to the server (such as content creation, profile updates, or admin actions). Inspect the HTML source of these forms to determine if a CSRF token, anti-CSRF token, or any unique request validation token is included as a hidden field or header.Affected if Forms that modify data lack CSRF tokens or unique request validation tokens.
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Test for CSRF token validation on submissionSubmit a state-changing request (such as saving content) without the expected token, using a tool like Burp Suite or curl, and observe whether the server accepts or rejects the request.Affected if The server accepts and processes requests without validating a CSRF token.
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Inspect input handling for stored contentCreate or submit content containing a script tag (such as <script>alert(1)</script>) through the application's content creation features. Retrieve the stored content and examine whether the script tag is rendered as plain text or executed as code.Affected if The submitted script tags are rendered and executed when the content is displayed to users, indicating missing output encoding.
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Check for context-aware output encodingView the page source or inspect DOM elements where user-submitted content is displayed. Determine if special characters like <, >, ', " are encoded (to <, >, ', ") or if raw HTML is rendered.Affected if User-submitted content is rendered as raw HTML without encoding, allowing stored XSS execution.
The environment is affected if Go Animate is present and state-changing operations lack CSRF protection combined with missing input validation or output encoding that allows stored XSS payloads to persist and execute.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations and apply proper input validation with context-aware output encoding to prevent stored XSS execution.
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