CVE-2022-23133: Stored XSS in host groups configuration window in Zabbix Frontend

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
Zabbix: from 5.0.0 through 5.0.18; from 5.4.0 through 5.4.8; 6.0.0-alpha1

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SZYHXINBKCY42ITFSNCYE7KCSF33VRA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VB6W556GVXOKUYTASTDGL3AI7S3SJHX7/
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20388
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00000.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SZYHXINBKCY42ITFSNCYE7KCSF33VRA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VB6W556GVXOKUYTASTDGL3AI7S3SJHX7/
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20388

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