What is CVE-2022-23707?

CVE-2022-23707 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-02-11.

How severe is CVE-2022-23707?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2022-23707

An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pattern which could execute against other users

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2022-02-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 7.5.1 through 7.16.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-0-security-update/296215 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23707?: CVE-2022-23707 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-02-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-23707?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.