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CVE-2023-22933: Persistent Cross-Site Scripting through the ‘module’ Tag in a View in Splunk Enterprise

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a View allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in an extensible mark-up language (XML) View through the ‘layoutPanel’ attribute in the ‘module’ tag’.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: from 8.1.0 before 8.1.13; from 8.2.0 before 8.2.10; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.4 — fixed in 8.1.13, 8.2.10, 9.0.4
• Splunk Cloud Platform: before 9.0.2209 — fixed in 9.0.2209

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 8.1.13, 8.2.10, 9.0.4; Splunk Cloud Platform 9.0.2209. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0203
• https://research.splunk.com/application/9ac2bfea-a234-4a18-9d37-6d747e85c2e4
• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0203
• https://research.splunk.com/application/9ac2bfea-a234-4a18-9d37-6d747e85c2e4

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