Medium
Security advisory
Cacti 1.1.38 allows authenticated users with User Management permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the "new_username" field during creation of a new user via "Copy" method at user_admin.php.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23225
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cacti 1.1.38 allows authenticated users with User Management permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the "new_username" field during creation of a new user via "Copy" method at user_admin.php.
osv:CVE-2021-23225
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:23.810117269Z",
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"references": [
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"published_at": "2022-01-19T21:15:08.087+00:00"
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