What is CVE-2023-27472?

CVE-2023-27472 is a high-severity vulnerability in Atampy25 Quickentity-Editor-Next, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2023-03-06.

How severe is CVE-2023-27472?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.

XSS in Atampy25 Quickentity-Editor-Next

CVE-2023-27472

quickentity-editor-next is an open source, system local, video game asset editor. In affected versions HTML tags in entity names are not sanitised (XSS vulnerability). Allows arbitrary code execution within the browser sandbox, among other things, simply from loading a file containing a script tag in any entity name. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.1 of the application. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Atampy25 Quickentity-editor-next — versions < 1.28.1
Quickentity_editor_project Quickentity_editor

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-27472?: CVE-2023-27472 is a high-severity vulnerability in Atampy25 Quickentity-Editor-Next, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2023-03-06.
How severe is CVE-2023-27472?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.