Skip to content
Noroxi
CVE-2023-50339· NVD / CVE Program· CNA jpcert

Stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the User Management (/admin/users) page of GROWI versions prior to v6.1.11.

Stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the User Management (/admin/users) page of GROWI versions prior to v6.1.11. If this vulnerability is exploited, an arbitrary script may be executed on the web browser of the user who accessed the site using the product.

MediumCVSS 5.4 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 26, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 20th percentile
Follow this CVE

Sign in to follow · You’ll be notified if a followed record enters KEV, gets an exploit or is updated.

Report tools

JSON

Action score

21

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Noroxi analysis

No Noroxi analysis for this record yet

We don't hand-write analysis for the hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities in the database; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.

We use this product, ask for help

Affected systems

VendorProduct
weseekgrowi

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • weseek growibefore 6.1.11

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (jpcert). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • WESEEK, Inc. GROWI

    • v6.1.11affected

Same product

weseek: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2021-20736NoSQL injection vulnerability in GROWI versions prior to v4.2.20 allows a remote attacker to obtain and/or alter the information stored in t
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2019-5968Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in GROWI v3.4.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administ
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5683Directory traversal vulnerability in GROWI versions prior to v4.2.3 (v4.2 Series), GROWI versions prior to v4.1.12 (v4.1 Series), and GROWI
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5682Improper input validation in GROWI versions prior to v4.2.3 (v4.2 Series), GROWI versions prior to v4.1.12 (v4.1 Series), and GROWI v3 serie
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5676GROWI v4.1.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to obtain information which is not allowed to access via unspecified vectors.
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2019-13338In WESEEK GROWI before 3.5.0, a remote attacker can obtain the password hash of the creator of a page by leveraging wiki access to make API
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2023-472150 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability which is exploiting a behavior of the XSS Filter exists in GROWI versions prior to v6.0.0.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-491190 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability via the img tags exists in GROWI versions prior to v6.0.0.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-495980 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the event handlers of the pre tags in GROWI versions prior to v6.0.0.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-497790 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the anchor tag of GROWI versions prior to v6.0.0.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-498070 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing the MathJax exists in GROWI versions prior to v6.0.0.
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-501750 days apartStored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the App Settings (/admin/app) page, the Markdown Settings (/admin/markdown) page, and th
    21Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

—

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

—

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

All records