CVE-2023-32536
Published: 26 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-32536 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Trendmicro Apex Central. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 34.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-36780
Vulnerability details
Affected versions Trend Micro Apex Central (on-premise) are vulnerable to potential authenticated reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks due to user input validation and sanitization issues. Please note: an attacker must first obtain authentication to Apex Central on the target system…
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in order to exploit this vulnerability. This is similar to, but not identical to CVE-2023-32537.
- 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.