CVE-2023-22857
Published: 06 March 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-22857 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Blogengine Blogengine.Net. Its CVSS base score is 8.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 49.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-26967
Vulnerability details
A stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BlogEngine.NET 3.3.8.0, allows injection of arbitrary JavaScript in the security context of a blog visitor through an injection of a malicious payload into a blog post.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.