CVE-2023-4173mooSocial mooStore index cross site scripting
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 5.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in mooSocial mooStore 3.1.6. Affected is an unknown function of the file /search/index. The manipulation of the argument q leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-236208.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Nuclei templates1 template
- mooSocial 3.1.8 - Reflected XSS (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-4173.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- mooSocial 3.1.8 - Reflected XSS (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51670webapps, phppublished 8 Aug 2023Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
References
References3
- https://vuldb.com/?id.236208 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.236208 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174016/mooSocial-3.1.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)relatedx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-54052 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-4173)Record last updated .