Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-38536

Medium

Published: 13 March 2024

Published
13 March 2024
Modified
10 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-38536 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Opentext Exceed Turbox. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

HTML injection in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting version 12.5.1. The vulnerability could result in Cross site scripting.  

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

opentext
exceed turbox
12.5.0, 12.5.1

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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