Answer maintains a singular web application product that has accumulated a notable vulnerability footprint relative to its narrow scope, positioning it prominently among focused vendors tracked in this landscape. Vulnerabilities affecting this product skew toward serious outcomes, with an elevated share reaching critical severity, and cluster consistently around web-application and session-management weaknesses—cross-site scripting, insufficient session expiration, missing authorization checks, and related input-handling flaws that are characteristic of application-layer attack surfaces. The recurrence of these weakness classes reflects the product's role as a web-facing platform where authentication, input validation, and session hygiene are foundational to security posture. Defenders should treat this vendor's security advisories as priority items given the severity tendency and ensure that any deployed instances are kept current with patches; live exploitation activity, severity counts, and exposure figures are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Answer over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (34 CVEs).
34 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2023-0744CRITICAL Improper Access Control in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.4. | Feb 8, 2023 | 9.8 | 44 | NO | YES |
CVE-2023-1537CRITICAL Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.6. | Mar 21, 2023 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-0742CRITICAL Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.4. | Feb 8, 2023 | 9.0 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-1543HIGH Insufficient Session Expiration in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.6. | Mar 21, 2023 | 8.8 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-0743CRITICAL Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.4. | Feb 8, 2023 | 9.0 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-0741CRITICAL Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - DOM in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.4. | Feb 8, 2023 | 9.0 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-0740CRITICAL Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.4. | Feb 8, 2023 | 9.0 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-4126HIGH Insufficient Session Expiration in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to v1.1.0. | Aug 3, 2023 | 8.8 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-4815HIGH Missing Authentication for Critical Function in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to v1.1.3. | Sep 7, 2023 | 8.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-4125HIGH Weak Password Requirements in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to v1.1.0. | Aug 3, 2023 | 8.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (34 CVEs).
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