CVE-2023-4303
Published: 21 August 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4303 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Fortify. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 50.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-2179
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Fortify Plugin 22.1.38 and earlier does not escape the error message for a form validation method, resulting in an HTML injection vulnerability.
- 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.