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CVE-2023-0742

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-0742 is a critical stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting answerdev/answer prior to version 1.0.4. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.0. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching to mitigate this severe risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:answer:answer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0087 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 265 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.6 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/answerdev/answerFixed in: 1.0.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-rmw8-7823-wp7fcritical

Answer contains Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Feb 8, 2023

References

github.com / answerdev/answer/commit/c3001de52af91f09c96e701facbce0b9fa0c98ad
Patch
huntr.dev / bounties/d73a2c03-7035-453b-9c04-c733ace65544
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory