CVE-2023-2442: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 96.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A specially crafted merge request could lead to a stored XSS on the client side which allows attackers to perform arbitrary actions on behalf of victims.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 15.11.0, before 15.11.7 (fixed in 15.11.7); from 16.0.0, before 16.0.2 (fixed in 16.0.2)

Published 2023-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.