CVE-2023-45796 — A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Runtime component of Pilz PAS

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Runtime component of Pilz PASvisu before 1.14.1 and PMI v8xx up to and including 2.0.33992 allows a low-privileged remote unauthenticated attacker to manipulate process data with potential impact on integrity and/or availability.

01What is this vulnerability?

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Runtime component of Pilz PASvisu before 1.14.1 and PMI v8xx up to and including 2.0.33992 allows a low-privileged remote unauthenticated attacker to manipulate process data with potential impact on integrity and/or availability.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

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: 2026-06-22T10:16:17.513
• Last modified: 2026-09-26T23:10:00.127

09References

• certvde.com — https://certvde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2023-050/