CVE-2023-38500

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileDEEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.51% (43rd) EPSS
CVSS 6.1 · medium
Is it mine?
6 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer is an HTML sanitizer, written in PHP, aiming to provide cross-site-scripting-safe markup based on explicitly allowed tags, attributes and values. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2, due to an encoding issue in the serialization layer, malicious markup nested in a `noscript` element was not encoded correctly. `noscript` is disabled in the default configuration, but might have been enabled in custom scenarios. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of TYPO3 HTML Sanitizer. Versions 1.5.1 and 2.1.2 fix the problem.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7
v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 2.7
v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV
v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-79USCWE-79US
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affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2023-1878TYPO3 Core: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-07-24csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in TYPO3 Core ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen oder Informationen offenzulegen.

  • GHSA-59jf-3q9v-rh6gBy-passing Cross-Site Scripting Protection in HTML Sanitizer2023-07-25ghsa · osvUS

    > ### CVSS: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C` (4.4) ### Problem Due to an encoding issue in the serialization layer, malicious markup nested in a `noscript` element was not encoded correctly. `noscript` is disabled in the default configuration, but might have been enabled in custom scenarios. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of [`typo3/html-sanitizer`](https://packagist.org/packages/typo3/html-sanitizer). ### Solution Update to `typo3/html-sanitizer` versions 1.5.1 or 2.1.2 that fix the problem described. ### Credits Thanks to David Klein and Yaniv Nizry who reported this issue, and to TYPO3 security team members Oliver Hader and Benjamin Franzke who fixed the issue. ### References * [TYPO3-CORE-SA-2023-002](https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2023-002)

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also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdnvdosvcert_bundNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2023-07-25modified 2026-06-17
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references (10)

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