CVE-2023-29489 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in cPanel before 11.109.9999.116. XSS can occur on the cpsrvd error page via an invalid webcall ID, aka SEC-669. The fixed versions are 11.109.9999.116, 11.108.0.13, 11.106.0.18, and 11.102.0.31.

Published: 2023-04-27

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: 92.9% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel::::::::

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.92926.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.assetnote.io/2023/04/26/xss-million-websites-cpanel/
https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/cpanel-tsr-2023-0001-full-disclosure.708949/

History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.109.9999.116:::::::*
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Cpanel Cpanel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:07:46.446Z

Reserved: 2023-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-29489

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:07:46.446Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-27T21:15:10.783

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:57:09.780

Link: CVE-2023-29489

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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