CVE-2023-49117
Published: 26 December 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-49117 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Alfasado Powercms. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-53125
Vulnerability details
PowerCMS (6 Series, 5 Series, and 4 Series) contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. If this vulnerability is exploited, an arbitrary script may be executed on a logged-in user's web browser. Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and…
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earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this 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.