CVE-2023-22933 — In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a View allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in an extensible mark-up language (XML) View through the ‘layoutPanel’ attribute in the ‘module’ tag’.

01What is this vulnerability?

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a View allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in an extensible mark-up language (XML) View through the ‘layoutPanel’ attribute in the ‘module’ tag’.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Splunk	Splunk Enterprise	8.1, 8.2, 9.0
Splunk	Splunk Cloud Platform	-

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

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-02-14T17:22:40.081Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-28T11:03:44.416Z

09References

• advisory.splunk.com — https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0203
• research.splunk.com — https://research.splunk.com/application/9ac2bfea-a234-4a18-9d37-6d747e85c2e4