CVE-2023-28447
Cross site scripting vulnerability in Javascript escaping in smarty/smarty
02 Description
Cross site scripting vulnerability in Javascript escaping in smarty/smarty
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.01% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 63.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-03-28 20:07Z3 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-11-03 21:47Z11 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-03-15
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.1)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 38b5c990a2fa6f3dcf904db39cbb74c1b1ac4e2755e42e1eca0c53881d0f8b9f
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/security/advisories/GHSA-7j98-h7fp-4vwj
- github.comhttps://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/commit/685662466f653597428966d75a661073104d713d
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HSAUM3YHWHO4UCJXRGRLQGPJAO3MFOZZ/
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JBB35GLYTL6JL6EOM6BOZNYP47JKNNHT/
- lists.fedoraproject.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P7O7SKTATM6GAP45S64QFXNLWIY5I7HP/
- lists.debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00013.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.47-2+deb12u1
- smarty4 Fixed in 4.3.0-1+deb12u1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.48-1
- smarty4 Fixed in 4.3.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.48-1
- smarty4 Fixed in 4.3.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.34+20190228.1.c9f0de05+selfpack1-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.39-2ubuntu1.22.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.48-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- civicrm Fixed in 4.7.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.21-1ubuntu1+esm2Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- civicrm Fixed in 4.7.30+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- postfixadmin Fixed in 3.0.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.31+20161214.1.c7d42e4+selfpack1-3ubuntu0.1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- civicrm Fixed in 5.21.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- postfixadmin Fixed in 3.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS
- civicrm Fixed in 5.33.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- postfixadmin Fixed in 3.3.10-2ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS
- postfixadmin Fixed in 3.3.13-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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