CVE-2023-1248 | Possible XSS in Ticket Actions

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in OTRS AG OTRS (Ticket Actions modules), OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition (Ticket Actions modules) allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects OTRS: from 7.0.X before 7.0.42; ((OTRS)) Community Edition: from 6.0.1 through 6.0.34.

Published: 2023-03-20 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-1248 is rated Moderate Risk (49.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.67%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-1248

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-21 0.41% 0.67% +0.26%
2 2025-11-21 0.78% 0.41% -0.37%
3 2025-11-18 0.78%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-1248

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.7 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-1248

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-1248

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-1248 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (otrs2), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 8, needs-triage 5. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1248

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-1248

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
otrs otrs >= 6.0.1, <= 6.0.34 cpe:2.3:a:otrs:otrs:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
otrs otrs >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.42 cpe:2.3:a:otrs:otrs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-1248

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