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CVE-2023-40592: Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) on "/app/search/table" web endpoint

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.1.1, 9.0.6, and 8.2.12, an attacker can craft a special web request that can result in reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) on the “/app/search/table” web endpoint. Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to the execution of arbitrary commands on the Splunk platform instance.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: from 8.2.0 before 8.2.12; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.6; 9.1.0 — fixed in 8.2.12, 9.0.6
• Splunk Cloud Platform: through 9.0.2305.100

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 8.2.12, 9.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0801
• https://research.splunk.com/application/182f9080-4137-4629-94ac-cb1083ac981a/
• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0801
• https://research.splunk.com/application/182f9080-4137-4629-94ac-cb1083ac981a/

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