CVE-2023-22522

At a glance

Severity
CRITICAL 9.0
EPSS
EPSS 12.95 % · percentile 96 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
atlassian
NVD status
Modified

Description

This Template Injection vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker, including one with anonymous access, to inject unsafe user input into a Confluence page. Using this approach, an attacker is able to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on an affected instance. Publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server versions as listed below are at risk and require immediate attention. See the advisory for additional details Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hatlassian
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security@atlassian.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Atlassian · Confluence Data Centerunaffected < 4.0.0 ; affected >= 4.0.0 ; affected >= 7.20.0 ; affected >= 8.0.0 ; affected >= 8.6.0 ; unaffected >= 7.19.17
Atlassian · Confluence Serverunaffected < 4.0.0 ; affected >= 4.0.0 ; affected >= 7.20.0 ; affected >= 8.0.0 ; affected >= 8.6.0 ; unaffected >= 7.19.17

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD