CVE-2023-22894
mediumpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.041 · 91 %ileexploit · PoCDEEUUSadded 2026-10-08remediate by 2026-10-11
required action Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
EPSS · scored 2026-10-26
Strapi Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Vulnerability
Strapi through 4.5.5 allows attackers (with access to the admin panel) to discover sensitive user details by exploiting the query filter. The attacker can filter users by columns that contain sensitive information and infer a value from API responses. If the attacker has super admin access, then this can be exploited to discover the password hash and password reset token of all users. If the attacker has admin panel access to an account with permission to access the username and email of API users with a lower privileged role (e.g., Editor or Author), then this can be exploited to discover sensitive information for all API users but not other admin accounts.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 4.9–9.8
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exploits (2)
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- Saboor-Hakimi/CVE-2023-22894CVE-2023-22894PoC · poc_in_github
- maxntv/CVE-2023-22894-PoCmaxntv/CVE-2023-22894-PoCPoC · poc_in_github
affected products (9)
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advisories (2)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-1040Strapi: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-04-19csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Strapi ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen und Informationen offenzulegen.
- GHSA-jjqf-j4w7-92w8Strapi leaking sensitive user information by filtering on private fields2023-04-19ghsa · osvUS
### Summary Strapi through 4.7.1 allows unauthenticated attackers to discover sensitive user details for Strapi administrators and API users. ### Details Strapi through 4.7.1 allows unauthenticated attackers to discover sensitive user details for Strapi administrators and API users. The unauthenticated attacker can filter users by columns that contain sensitive information and infer the values by the changes in the API responses. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to hijack Strapi administrator accounts and gain unauthorized Strapi Super Administrator access by leaking the password reset token and changing the admin password. This can be exploited on all Strapi versions <=4.7.1. ### IoC The exploitation of CVE-2023-22894 is easily detectable, since the payload is within the GET parameters and are normally included in request logs. The following regex pattern will extract requests that are exploiting this vulnerability to leak user's email, password and password reset token columns. `/(\[|%5B)\s*(email|password|reset_password_token|resetPasswordToken)\s*(\]|%5D)/` You can search log files for this IoC by using the following grep command. `grep -iE '(\[|%5B)\s*(email|password|reset_password_token|resetPasswordToken)\s*(\]|%5D)' $PATH_TO_LOG_FILE` If the above regex pattern matches any lines in your log files, take extra precaution to look out for multiple requests that include password, reset_password_token or resetPasswordToken. This would indicate that an attacker has leaked the password hashes and reset tokens on your Strapi server and you need to immediately start an incident response! ### Impact All Strapi users below 4.8.0
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references (12)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-22894/cnnvd
- https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releasescnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22894cnnvd
- https://strapi.io/blog/security-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-cvecnnvd
- https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_strapi_vulns/cnnvd
- https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releasesenisa_euvd
- https://strapi.io/blog/security-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-cveenisa_euvd
- https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_strapi_vulns/enisa_euvd
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