CVE-2023-51072

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the NOC component of Nagios XI version up to and including 2024R1 allows low-privileged users to execute malicious HTML or JavaScript code via the audio file upload functionality from the Operation Center section. This allows any authenticated user to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on behalf of other users, including the administrators.

Affected products

Nagios XI: before 2024; 2024-r1 — fixed in 2024

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Nagios XI 2024. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.nagios.com/products/security/#nagios-xi
https://www.nagios.com/products/security/#nagios-xi

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