CVE-2023-0507 Grafana vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

What is CVE-2023-0507?

CVE-2023-0507 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 1 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability.

Starting with the 8.1 branch, Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin GeoMap.

The stored XSS vulnerability was possible due to map attributions weren't properly sanitized and allowed arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in the context of the currently authorized user of the Grafana instance.

An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a panel to include a map attribution containing JavaScript.

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.

Users may upgrade to version 8.5.21, 9.2.13 and 9.3.8 to receive a fix.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0507?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/grafana/grafana and grafana. It affects 1 product.

Products include Grafana Grafana.

How do I fix CVE-2023-0507?

Upgrade github.com/grafana/grafana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.5.21, 9.2.13 or 9.3.8.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2023-0507 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0507 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Grafana Grafana

• CVE-2021-43798 Grafana Path Traversal Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2025-41115 Incorrect privilege assignment Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-39328 Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-28660 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26148 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.8

All Grafana Grafana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-grafana-2023-0507, CLSA-2026-1781274708, GHSA-hjv9-hm2f-rpcj, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0507.