CVE-2023-0507

HIGH

Grafana vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Title source: GitHub Advisory
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2023-0507 has a selected CVSS score of 7.3 (high).

Description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Starting with the 8.1 branch, Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin GeoMap. The stored XSS vulnerability was possible due to map attributions weren't properly sanitized and allowed arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in the context of the currently authorized user of the Grafana instance. An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a panel to include a map attribution containing JavaScript. This means that vertical privilege escalation is possible, where a user with Editor role can change to a known password for a user having Admin role if the user with Admin role executes malicious JavaScript viewing a dashboard. Users may upgrade to version 8.5.21, 9.2.13 and 9.3.8 to receive a fix.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactTotal

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Jan 27, 2026 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

3
ProductSourceVersion range

Grafana

Browse Grafana / Grafana

Default status: unaffected

CVE List8.1.0 to < 8.5.21affected
9.0.0 to < 9.2.13affected
9.3.0 to < 9.3.8affected

Grafana Enterprise

Browse Grafana / Grafana Enterprise

Default status: unaffected

CVE List8.1.0 to < 8.5.21affected
9.0.0 to < 9.2.13affected
9.3.0 to < 9.3.8affected

github.com/grafana/grafana

Browse Go / github.com/grafana/grafana
GitHub Advisory8.1.0 to < 8.5.21 · Fixed in 8.5.21affected
9.0.0 to < 9.2.13 · Fixed in 9.2.13affected
9.3.0 to < 9.3.8 · Fixed in 9.3.8affected

References

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