What is CVE-2022-38248?

CVE-2022-38248 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nagios Xi, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-09-07.

How severe is CVE-2022-38248?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Nagios Xi

CVE-2022-38248

Nagios XI before v5.8.7 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities at auditlog.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2022-09-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (80.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.021 · change: +0.003

Affected products

Nagios Xi

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-38248?: CVE-2022-38248 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nagios Xi, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-09-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-38248?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.