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CVE-2023-1241

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1241 describes a stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the answerdev/answer GitHub repository prior to version 1.0.6. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity, requiring user interaction to trigger. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:answer:answer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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: 1.0.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-ff27-hrmr-ggpjmedium

Answer vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Mar 7, 2023

References

github.com / answerdev/answer/commit/90bfa0dcc7b49482f1d1e31aee3ab073f3c13dd9
Patch
huntr.dev / bounties/e0e9b1bb-3025-4b9f-acb4-16a5da28aa3c
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory