🛡️ CVE-2023-32685 on Debian — kanboard

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. Due to improper handling of elements under the contentEditable element, maliciously crafted clipboard content can inject arbitrary HTML tags into the DOM. A low-privileged attacker with permission to attach a document on a vulnerable Kanboard instance can trick the victim into pasting malicious screenshot data and achieve cross-site scripting if CSP is improperly configured. This issue has been patched in version 1.2.29.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-32685 as tracked by Debian, for the package kanboard. The fix is available in version 1.2.26+ds-3; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32685 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32685 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kanboard (fixed in 1.2.26+ds-3)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 May 2023 and last revised on 7 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2023-32685 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-05-30
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-05-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kanboard — 1.2.26+ds-3

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