CVE-2023-28530: IBM Cognos Analytics

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 and 11.2 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of SVG Files in Custom Visualizations. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute scripts in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 251214.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: from 11.1.0, before 11.1.7 (fixed in 11.1.7); from 11.2.0, before 11.2.4 (fixed in 11.2.4); version 11.1.7 only; version 11.2.4 only

Published 2023-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.