# CVE-2023-22462: Stored XSS in Grafana Text plugin

> An attacker with Editor role can inject malicious scripts into Text panels, potentially escalating privileges to Admin if an Admin views the dashboard.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** Yes
- **Published:** 2 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 28 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** BIT-grafana-2023-22462, GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22462

## What is CVE-2023-22462?

CVE-2023-22462 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 2 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. 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.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22462?

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


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `github.com/grafana/grafana` | Go | From 9.2.0 | 9.2.10 |
| `github.com/grafana/grafana` | Go | From 9.2.0 | 9.2.10 |
| `github.com/grafana/grafana` | Go | From 9.3.0 | 9.3.4 |
| `github.com/grafana/grafana` | Go | From 9.3.0 | 9.3.4 |
| `grafana` | Bitnami | From 9.2.0 | 9.2.10, 9.3.4 |

Products: Grafana Grafana.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-22462?

Upgrade github.com/grafana/grafana to a fixed version for your release line: 9.2.10 or 9.3.4.

## Is CVE-2023-22462 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22462 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Grafana Grafana

- [CVE-2021-43798](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43798/): Grafana Path Traversal (high 7.5, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-41115](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-41115/): Incorrect privilege assignment (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2022-39328](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39328/): Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-28660](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28660/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-26148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-26148/): Information disclosure in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-22462 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-22462 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 2 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-2023-22462 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): affected from 9.2.0; fixed in 9.2.10
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): affected from 9.2.0; fixed in 9.2.10
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): affected from 9.3.0; fixed in 9.3.4
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): affected from 9.3.0; fixed in 9.3.4
- grafana (Bitnami): affected from 9.2.0; fixed in 9.2.10, 9.3.4

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-2023-22462/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22462/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22462
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22462
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-22462

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22462/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.