Grafana Labs XSS (CVE-2025-6023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242625

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Synopsis

The remote host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update Grafana Labs to 11.3.8+security-01, 11.4.6+security-01, 11.5.6+security-01, 11.6.3+security-01, 12.0.2+security-01 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242625

File Name: grafana_CVE-2025-6023.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 7/23/2025

Updated: 7/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:grafana:grafana

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6023

IAVB: 2025-B-0121

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