# CVE-2023-22288: Email HTML Injection

> An authenticated attacker can inject malicious HTML into Checkmk emails, potentially leading to XSS attacks against recipients.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3g55-gxf8-m8xp, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22288

## What is CVE-2023-22288?

CVE-2023-22288 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Checkmk Checkmk, published on 20 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

HTML Email Injection in Tribe29 Checkmk <=2.1.0p23; <=2.0.0p34, and all versions of Checkmk 1.6.0 allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious HTML into Emails

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-138 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22288?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Checkmk Checkmk, Tribe29 Checkmk.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-22288?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-22288 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-22288 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22288 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-22288 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-22288 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Checkmk Checkmk, published on 20 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22288 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Checkmk Checkmk. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22288/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22288/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22288
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22288
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-22288

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22288/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.