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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-23133

An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:08 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-23133

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Jan 2022, 16:15 UTC

An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.

osv:CVE-2022-23133
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23133",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-23133",
    "summary": "An authenticated user can create a hosts group from the configuration with XSS payload, which will be available for other users. When XSS is stored by an authenticated malicious actor and other users try to search for groups during new host creation, the XSS payload will fire and the actor can steal session cookies and perform session hijacking to impersonate users or take over their accounts.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-23133",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.295264135Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00000.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SZYHXINBKCY42ITFSNCYE7KCSF33VRA/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VB6W556GVXOKUYTASTDGL3AI7S3SJHX7/",
        "https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20388"
      ],
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                    "introduced": "5.0.0"
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                  },
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                  }
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    },
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        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440223,
  "published_at": "2022-01-13T16:15:08.17+00:00"
}