CVE-2023-22462 — Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user in

01What is this vulnerability?

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
grafana	grafana	>= 9.2, < 9.2.10, >= 9.3, < 9.3.4

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-03-02T00:06:59.876Z
• Last modified: 2026-01-28T04:55:37.854Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf
• github.com — https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/db83d5f398caffe35c5846cfa7727d1a2a4141…
• grafana.com — https://grafana.com/blog/2023/02/28/grafana-security-release-new-versions-with-s…
• security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0004/