CVE-2023-38307 — An issue was discovered in Webmin 2

An issue was discovered in Webmin 2.021. A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Users and Groups functionality. The vulnerability occurs when an authenticated user adds a new user and inserts an XSS payload into the user's real name.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Webmin 2.021. A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Users and Groups functionality. The vulnerability occurs when an authenticated user adds a new user and inserts an XSS payload into the user's real name.

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: 2023-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-22T17:50:42.240Z

09References

• webmin.com — https://webmin.com/tags/webmin-changelog/
• github.com — https://github.com/jaysharma786/Webmin-2.021/blob/main/CVE-2023-38307