Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-23497

XSS in Frappe Learning 2.0.0 – 2.45.0

Published
14 January 2026
Modified
16 January 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v4 1.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0014 4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-23497 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Frappe Learning. Its CVSS base score is 1.3 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Frappe Learning Management System (LMS) is a learning system that helps users structure their content. In 2.44.0 and earlier, there is a stored XSS vulnerability where a specially crafted image filename could execute malicious JavaScript when rendered on course or…

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jobs pages.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
Why these techniques?

Stored XSS in public-facing web app directly enables exploitation via T1190 and arbitrary JS execution via T1059.007.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-5555Same product: Frappe Learning
CVE-2023-46127Same vendor: Frappe
CVE-2023-6649Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-6465Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-6945Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-6462Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-6313Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-5599Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-5538Shared CWE-79
CVE-2023-6472Shared CWE-79

Affected Assets

frappe
learning
2.0.0 — 2.45.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
  • SI-3 Malicious Code Protection
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)
  • SI-3 Malicious Code Protection
Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.1.2
  • V1.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces validation of all user-supplied input (including filenames) to reject or sanitize characters that enable stored XSS before the crafted image is persisted or rendered.

prevent

Requires filtering or encoding of all information written to course/jobs pages, neutralizing script payloads embedded in image filenames at output time.

preventdetect

Provides malicious-code inspection and blocking mechanisms that can be extended to detect and strip XSS payloads in uploaded filenames and rendered content.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly target introduction of XSS via coding standards/testing (mostly), yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors unaddressed (partial).

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching and EOL replacement can remediate known XSS instances in libraries or frameworks (partial) but do nothing to enforce input neutralization in application code (none).

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Secure-coding testing and automated code-analysis tools are applied to detect improper neutralization of script-related content during web-page generation.

prevents

Knowledge exchange on emerging attack techniques and patches reduces the likelihood that cross-site scripting flaws remain unaddressed in deployed applications.

prevents

Operational indicators of compromise for web-application attacks can be incorporated into WAF or input-filtering rules, lowering the likelihood that unsanitized data reaches the browser.

prevents

Requiring language-specific secure-coding standards and automated scanning during the SDLC catches missing output encoding or improper neutralization of untrusted data before the software reaches production.

prevents

Secure-coding standards, SAST scans and removal of insecure code samples together eliminate the failure to neutralize script content that produces cross-site scripting flaws.

none

Webpage malware scanning and block-listing of known malicious sites reduce the likelihood that reflected or stored script payloads reach a user’s browser.

References