CVE-2023-29016
Goobi viewer Core has Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in User Nicknames
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
The Goobi viewer is a web application that allows digitised material to be displayed in a web browser. A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in Goobi viewer core prior to version 23.03 when using nicknames. An attacker could create a user account and enter malicious scripts into their profile's nickname, resulting in the execution in the user's browser when displaying the nickname on certain pages. The vulnerability has been fixed in version 23.03.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 61% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 23.03
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.goobi.viewer:viewer-coreGHSA-2r9r-8fcg-m38g (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/security/advisories/GHSA-2r9r-8fcg-m38g (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/commit/8eadb32b3fdcb775678b74d95bc3df018a5d5238 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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 Advisory GHSA-2r9r-8fcg-m38g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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