CVE-2023-4393
Published: 30 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4393 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Liquidfiles Liquidfiles. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 46.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-54257
Vulnerability details
HTML and SMTP injections on the registration page of LiquidFiles versions 3.7.13 and below, allow an attacker to perform more advanced phishing attacks against an organization.
- 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.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Developer assessments and testing (including injection-focused techniques) identify improper neutralization of special elements, and the verifiable flaw remediation corrects them pre-deployment.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Identifies indicators of injection attacks (command, SQL, LDAP, etc.) via anomaly and attack monitoring.