CVE-2023-33961
Published: 30 May 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-33961 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Leantime Leantime. Its CVSS base score is 8.9 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 25.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-38092
Vulnerability details
Leantime is a lean open source project management system. Starting in version 2.3.21, an authenticated user with commenting privileges can inject malicious Javascript into a comment. Once the malicious comment is loaded in the browser by a user, the malicious…
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Javascript code executes. As of time of publication, a patch does not exist.
- 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.