Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-37936
CVE-2021-37936
Description
It was discovered that Kibana was not sanitizing document fields containing HTML snippets. Using this vulnerability, an attacker with the ability to write documents to an elasticsearch index could inject HTML. When the Discover app highlighted a search term containing the HTML, it would be rendered for the user.
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References
2- discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.elastic.co/community/security/nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
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