What is CVE-2023-28350?

CVE-2023-28350 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faronics Insight, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2023-28350?

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

XSS in Faronics Insight

CVE-2023-28350

An issue was discovered in Faronics Insight 10.0.19045 on Windows. Attacker-supplied input is not validated/sanitized before being rendered in both the Teacher and Student Console applications, enabling an attacker to execute JavaScript in these applications. Due to the rich and highly privileged functionality offered by the Teacher Console, the ability to silently exploit Cross Site Scripting (XSS) on the Teacher Machine enables remote code execution on any connected student machine (and the teacher's machine).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.011 (61.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Faronics Insight — versions 10.0.19045
Microsoft Windows
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-28350?: CVE-2023-28350 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faronics Insight, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2023-28350?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.