TI-2023-08711 Aliases CVE-2023-22462 GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf

Stored XSS in Grafana Text plugin

LOW 34CWE-79Published 2023-03-02 · Updated 2026-01-28

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: High
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · None
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 6 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the unsanitized HTML code, but in the next cycle the HTML is cleaned up and saved in Grafana's database. An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a Text panel to include JavaScript. Another user needs to edit the same Text panel, and click on "Markdown" or "HTML" for the code to be executed. This means that vertical privilege escalation is possible, where a user with Editor role can change to a known password for a user having Admin role if the user with Admin role executes malicious JavaScript viewing a dashboard. This issue has been patched in versions 9.2.10 and 9.3.4.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01562 75th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial grafana (grafana): 9.2.10, 9.3.4github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): 9.2.10, 9.3.4Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 6 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Grafana	grafana	9.2 to before 9.2.10; 9.3 to before 9.3.4	9.2.10, 9.3.4	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)	9.2.0 to before 9.2.10	9.2.10	Patch available	GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf
—	github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)	9.3.0 to before 9.3.4	9.3.4	Patch available	GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf

grafana VendorGrafana Affected 9.2 to before 9.2.10; 9.3 to before 9.3.4 Fixed in 9.2.10, 9.3.4 Patch available CNA
github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.2.0 to before 9.2.10 Fixed in 9.2.10 Patch available GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf
github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.3.0 to before 9.3.4 Fixed in 9.3.4 Patch available GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana::::::::	9.2.0 to before 9.2.10; 9.3.0 to before 9.3.4	Vulnerable	Grafana

cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.2.0 to before 9.2.10; 9.3.0 to before 9.3.4 Vulnerable ·Grafana

Remediation

Fix · CNA grafana (grafana) Fixed in 9.2.10, 9.3.4
Fix · GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.2.10 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.3.4 Advisory →

Red Hat 1 advisory

RHSA-2024:0746 Released 2024-02-08 · Red Hat rating Important
new container image: rhceph-5.3
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8, rhceph/rhceph-haproxy-rhel8

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4	Affected	No fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Storage 3	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools	Fixed	RHSA-2024:0746

Not affected: 3 products

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-22462
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf

References

Patch 2

Advisory 3

Other 3

TI-2021-16611 Snapshot authentication bypass in grafana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2021-19604 Grafana path traversal KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2024-08600 Grafana SQL Expressions allow for remote code execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
TI-2023-02931 Authentication bypass by spoofing in Grafana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2020-10491 The avatar feature in Grafana 3.0.1 through 7.0.1 has an SSRF Incorrect Access Control… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
TI-2025-03662 Open redirect in Grafana CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6

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Sources

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