🛡️ CVE-2023-28447
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Smarty is a template engine for PHP. In affected versions smarty did not properly escape javascript code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the user's browser session. This may lead to unauthorized access to sensitive user data, manipulation of the web application's behavior, or unauthorized actions performed on behalf of the user. Users are advised to upgrade to either version 3.1.48 or to 4.3.1 to resolve this issue. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-28
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-11-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora
smarty 4.0.0 4.3.1
smarty/smarty 3.1.48

References

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