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CVE-2023-27472: HTML tags in entity names in the tree view are not sanitised in quickentity-editor-next

CVE-2023-27472 · published 3 years ago

Summary

What to do

Update quickentity_editor_project quickentity_editor to version 1.28.1 or later.

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
quickentity_editor_project	quickentity_editor	< 1.28.1 `cpe:2.3:a:quickentity_editor_project:quickentity_editor::::::::`

Original advisory text

HTML tags in entity names in the tree view are not sanitised in quickentity-editor-next

quickentity-editor-next is an open source, system local, video game asset editor. In affected versions HTML tags in entity names are not sanitised (XSS vulnerability). Allows arbitrary code execution within the browser sandbox, among other things, simply from loading a file containing a script tag in any entity name. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.1 of the application. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

https://github.com/atampy25/quickentity-editor-next/security/advisories/GHSA-22g... Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27472... Vendor Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27472 Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/atampy25/quickentity-editor-next/commit/5303b45a20a6e4e931872... Patch

Fix within

Internet-facing 14 days

Internal At next upgrade

Not known to be exploited
Needs hands-on effort to exploit
Gives an attacker full control

Severity

8.2 High

Exploitation

<1% chance of attack within 30 days

Type

CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Timeline

Published6 Mar 2023

Updated4 Nov 2026

First seen29 Sep 2026

Sources

CVE-2023-27472 · NVD

CVE-2023-27472 · OSV

GHSA-22gc-rq5x-fxpw · GHSA

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