CVE-2022-23133
Stored XSS in host groups configuration window in Zabbix Frontend
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Zabbix
Description
An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Zabbix
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZabbixCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Solution: To remediate this vulnerability, apply the updates.
References (4)
- https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20388 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-dfe346f53f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-1a667b0f90 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00000.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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