An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana OSS that can be exploited to achieve XSS attacks. The vulnerability was introduced in Grafana v11.5.0. The open redirect can be chained with path traversal vulnerabilities to achieve XSS. Fixed in versions 12.0.2+security-01, 11.6.3+security-01, 11.5.6+security-01, 11.4.6+security-01 and 11.3.8+security-01

According to its self-reported version, the Grafana install hosted on the remote host is prior to 11.3.8, or 11.4.x prior to 11.4.6, or 11.5.x prior to 11.5.6, or 11.6.x prior to 11.6.3, or 12.0.x prior to 12.0.2, or 12.1.x prior to 12.1.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiples vulnerabilities.

- An Open Redirect vulnerability in Grafana organization switching functionality.

- An Open Redirect can be chained with Path Traversal vulnerabilities to achieve XSS via scripted dashboards.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana OSS that can be exploited to achieve XSS     attacks. The vulnerability was introduced in Grafana v11.5.0. The open redirect can be chained with path     traversal vulnerabilities to achieve XSS. Fixed in versions 12.0.2+security-01, 11.6.3+security-01,     11.5.6+security-01, 11.4.6+security-01 and 11.3.8+security-01 (CVE-2025-6023)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Grafana Labs installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-6023 advisory. 

  - An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana OSS that can be exploited to achieve XSS     attacks. The vulnerability was introduced in Grafana v11.5.0. The open redirect can be chained with path     traversal vulnerabilities to achieve XSS. (CVE-2025-6023)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
114992	Grafana 12.1.x < 12.1.2 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114991	Grafana 12.0.x < 12.0.2 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114990	Grafana 11.6.x < 11.6.3 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114989	Grafana 11.5.x < 11.5.6 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114988	Grafana 11.4.x < 11.4.6 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
114987	Grafana < 11.3.8 Multiples Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
246598	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-6023	Nessus	Misc.	high
242625	Grafana Labs XSS (CVE-2025-6023)	Nessus	Web Servers	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2025-6023

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high

high

high

high

high