CVE-2023-5914
Published: 17 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-5914 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Cloud Citrix Storefront. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 1.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Citrix StoreFront contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2023-5914, CWE-79) that allows injection of untrusted scripts into web responses. The flaw received a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, no required privileges, and user-interaction dependence, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply crafted input that executes in a victim user's browser session when the page is rendered, enabling theft of session tokens, limited actions on behalf of the user, or display of deceptive content within the StoreFront interface.
Citrix has published a security bulletin (CTX583759) that details the affected StoreFront versions and the corresponding remediation steps or patches.
The vulnerability's EPSS score has reached a peak of 0.7403 with a current value of 0.6979, indicating sustained moderate exploitation interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58187
Vulnerability details
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- 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.