CVE-2023-38758 — Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in wger Project wger Workout Manager v

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in wger Project wger Workout Manager v.2.2.0a3 allows a remote attacker to gain privileges via the license_author field in the add-ingredient function in the templates/ingredients/view.html, models/ingredients.py, and views/ingredients.py compon

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in wger Project wger Workout Manager v.2.2.0a3 allows a remote attacker to gain privileges via the license_author field in the add-ingredient function in the templates/ingredients/view.html, models/ingredients.py, and views/ingredients.py components.

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: 2023-08-08T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-10T18:53:47.335Z

09References

• wger.de — https://wger.de
• github.com — https://github.com/0x72303074/CVE-Disclosures