CVE-2023-21807

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?

The vulnerability is in the web server, but the malicious scripts execute in the victim’s browser on their machine.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Information in the victim's browser associated with the vulnerable URL can be read by the malicious JavaScript code and sent to the attacker.