CVE-2023-49086: Cacti is vulnerable to cross-Site scripting (XSS) DOM

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cacti is a robust performance and fault management framework and a frontend to RRDTool - a Time Series Database (TSDB). A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.2.27 bypasses an earlier fix for CVE-2023-39360, therefore leading to a DOM XSS attack. Exploitation of the vulnerability is possible for an authorized user. The vulnerable component is the `graphs_new.php`. The impact of the vulnerability is execution of arbitrary JavaScript code in the attacked user's browser. This issue has been patched in version 1.2.27.

Affected products

cacti: 1.2.25

References

https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/6ec01c8b2983bf4fcb86f8c647655f74090b5be9
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-wc73-r2vw-59pr
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/6ec01c8b2983bf4fcb86f8c647655f74090b5be9
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-wc73-r2vw-59pr
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00018.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBEOAFKRARQHTDIYSL723XAFJ2Q6624X/

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