CVE-2026-72658: Elastic Kibana

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 8.0.0, before 8.19.20 (fixed in 8.19.20); from 9.0.0, before 9.4.5 (fixed in 9.4.5)

Published 2026-08-13. Last modified 2026-09-02.