CVE-2023-28358
Published: 11 May 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-28358 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Rocket.Chat Rocket.Chat. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 26.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-32056
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been discovered in Rocket.Chat where a markdown parsing issue in the "Search Messages" feature allows the insertion of malicious tags. This can be exploited on servers with content security policy disabled possible leading to some issues attacks…
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like account takeover.
- 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.