CVE-2023-31664 — A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /authenticationendpoint/

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /authenticationendpoint/login.do of WSO2 API Manager before 4.2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the tenantDomain parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /authenticationendpoint/login.do of WSO2 API Manager before 4.2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the tenantDomain parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2023-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-31T15:00:57.161Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/wso2/product-apim/releases/tag/v4.2.0
• github.com — https://github.com/wso2/api-manager/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+label%3AComp…
• github.com — https://github.com/adilkhan7/CVE-2023-31664