CVE-2024-31444 Cacti XSS vulnerability in lib/html.php by reading dirty data stored in database

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. Prior to version 1.2.27, some of the data stored in automation_tree_rules_form_save() function in automation_tree_rules.php is not thoroughly checked and is used to concatenate the HTML statement in form_confirm() function from lib/html.php , finally resulting in cross-site scripting. Version 1.2.27 contains a patch for the issue.