CVE-2023-24494 (GCVE-0-2023-24494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-25 00:00
Modified
2025-04-01 14:56
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Tenable.sc due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Tenable.sc Version: Tenable.sc versions 5.23.1 and earlier
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