CVE-2022-23656 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-23656: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zulip Server

Vendor Zulip
Product zulip
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published March 2, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

4.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Zulip is an open source team chat app. The `main` development branch of Zulip Server from June 2021 and later is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the recent topics page. An attacker could maliciously craft a full name for their account and send messages to a topic with several participants; a victim who then opens an overflow tooltip including this full name on the recent topics page could trigger execution of JavaScript code controlled by the attacker. Users running a Zulip server from the main branch should upgrade from main (2022-03-01 or later) again to deploy this fix.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 2, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated

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