vulnerability

Splunk: CVE-2023-46213: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) on “Show Syntax Highlighted” View in Search Page

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 16, 2023
Added
Apr 7, 2025
Modified
Oct 31, 2025

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.7 and 9.1.2, the “Show syntax highlighted” feature of the Search page does not effectively escape log file characters.This vulnerability lets an attacker craft a log file which can execute unauthorized Javascript code in the browser of a user that interacts with events in the malicious log file in a specific way.

Solution

splunk-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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