CVE-2023-43340 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in evolution v

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in evolution v.3.2.3 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload injected into the cmsadmin, cmsadminemail, cmspassword and cmspasswordconfim parameters

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in evolution v.3.2.3 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload injected into the cmsadmin, cmsadminemail, cmspassword and cmspasswordconfim parameters

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: 2023-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-12T20:16:25.243Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/sromanhu/Evolution-Reflected-XSS---Installation-Admin-Options
• github.com — https://github.com/sromanhu/-CVE-2023-43340-Evolution-Reflected-XSS---Installati…