HCL Digital Experience is susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS)

published 2022-12-15 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-41226

cvss: 2.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits: 0; none known

In HCL Digital Experience, customized XSS payload can be constructed such that it is served in the application unencoded.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-18)

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	2.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

HCL Software HCL Digital Experience

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

support.hcltechsw.com /csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0102141
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-38653
NVD CVE-2022-38653

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Summary