CVE-2023-4492
Published: 04 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4492 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Easy Address Book Web Server Project Easy Address Book Web Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 31.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-54347
- 🇪🇸 INCIBE: www.incibe.es
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability in Easy Address Book Web Server 1.6 version, affecting the parameters (firstname, homephone, lastname, middlename, workaddress, workcity, workcountry, workphone, workstate and workzip) of the /addrbook.ghp file, allowing an attacker to inject a JavaScript payload specially designed to run when…
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the application is loaded
- 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.