CVE-2023-47098
Published: 01 November 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-47098 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Virtualmin Virtualmin. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 24.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-51252
Vulnerability details
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Manage Extra Admins under Administration Options in Virtualmin 7.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the real name or description field.
- 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.