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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2023-40346 json

Jenkins Shortcut Job Plugin stored cross-site scripting vulnerability

published 2023-08-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jg35-vf67-gg2j , EUVD-2023-2317

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Jenkins Shortcut Job Plugin 0.4 and earlier does not escape the shortcut redirection URL, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to configure shortcut jobs.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.jenkins.plugins:shortcut-job 0.5

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.jenkins.plugins:shortcut-job
<0.5
0.5

Affected products

  • Jenkins Project Jenkins Shortcut Job Plugin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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