CVE-2022-43561: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.12, 8.2.9, and 9.0.2, a remote user that holds the “power” Splunk role can store arbitrary scripts that can lead to persistent cross-site scripting (XSS). The vulnerability affects instances with Splunk Web enabled.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 8.1.0, before 8.1.12 (fixed in 8.1.12); from 8.2.0, before 8.2.9 (fixed in 8.2.9); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.2 (fixed in 9.0.2)
• Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform: before 9.0.2208 (fixed in 9.0.2208)

Published 2022-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.