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CVE-2023-38873

Medium (6.5)—PoC
Routine follow-upSeverity Medium 6.5. A public proof of concept exists, but no active exploitation is known.
Severity6.5Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability0.78 %higher than 56% of CVEs · score from Nov 5, 2026
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog · checked Nov 6, 01:00 PM
Public exploitAvailableProof of concept on GitHub (unverified)

The commit 3730880 (April 2023) and v.0.9-beta1 of gugoan Economizzer is vulnerable to Clickjacking. Clickjacking, also known as a "UI redress attack", is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top-level page. Thus, the attacker is "hijacking" clicks meant for their page and routing them to another page, most likely owned by another application, domain, or both.

Timeline

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  2. Record last modified in NVD
  3. First public exploit

Public exploits

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Affected technologies (1)

Economizzer — Economizzer

NVD record

NVD status
Modified
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1021

References

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