What is CVE-2023-1496?

CVE-2023-1496 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Evilmartians Imgproxy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-03-19.

How severe is CVE-2023-1496?

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

XSS in Evilmartians Imgproxy

CVE-2023-1496

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in GitHub repository imgproxy/imgproxy prior to 3.14.0.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2023-03-19 · 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: 0.016 (74.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Evilmartians Imgproxy
Imgproxy Imgproxy/imgproxy — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

huntr.dev/bounties/de603972-935a-401a-96fb-17ddadd282b2 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy/commit/62f8d08a93d301285dcd1dabcc7ba10c6c65b689 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-1496?: CVE-2023-1496 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Evilmartians Imgproxy, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-03-19.
How severe is CVE-2023-1496?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.