Stored XSS via unsanitized dashboard template
Published Jun 1, 2023 · Updated Feb 28, 2025
Stored XSS in Splunk Enterprise allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in another user's browser through a crafted dashboard view. The dashboard passes a crafted Bootstrap tooltip or popover data-template attribute through URL validation without sanitizing it, preserving attacker-controlled script for later rendering. A low-privileged account can store the payload in 8.1.0 through 8.1.13, 8.2.0 through 8.2.10, or 9.0.0 through 9.0.4, but another user must open the view before browser-side code runs.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Splunk Enterprise allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in another user's browser through a crafted dashboard view. The dashboard passes a crafted Bootstrap tooltip or popover data-template attribute through URL validation without sanitizing it, preserving attacker-controlled script for later rendering. A low-privileged account can store the payload in 8.1.0 through 8.1.13, 8.2.0 through 8.2.10, or 9.0.0 through 9.0.4, but another user must open the view before browser-side code runs.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-32711
- Published
- Jun 1, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Splunk, Inc.
- Product
- Splunk Enterprise
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 1, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=8.1 <8.1.14
- Affected versionversion=8.2 <8.2.11
- Affected versionversion=9.0 <9.0.5
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