CVE-2022-23707

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pattern which could execute against other users

Affected products

Kibana: from 7.5.1 before 7.17.0 — fixed in 7.17.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 7.17.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-0-security-update/296215
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-0-security-update/296215

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