Privilege escalation via Policy Management script injection
Published Jan 23, 2024 · Updated Jun 20, 2025
Cross-site scripting in Policy Management in Trend Micro Apex Central 2019 allows remote authenticated users to escalate privileges. Policy Management fails to validate user-supplied data before embedding it in a page, allowing injection of arbitrary script. Exploitation requires authentication and a target to visit a malicious page or open a malicious file, granting access to resources normally protected from the attacker.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site scripting in Policy Management in Trend Micro Apex Central 2019 allows remote authenticated users to escalate privileges. Policy Management fails to validate user-supplied data before embedding it in a page, allowing injection of arbitrary script. Exploitation requires authentication and a target to visit a malicious page or open a malicious file, granting access to resources normally protected from the attacker.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-52330
- Published
- Jan 23, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Trend Micro
- Product
- Apex Central
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 23, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2019 <8.0.0.6570
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