Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat to make remote work productive and delightful. The main development branch of Zulip Server from May 2, 2023 and later, including beta versions 7.0-beta1 and 7.0-beta2, is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in tooltips on the message feed. An attacker who can send messages could maliciously craft a topic for the message, such that a victim who hovers the tooltip for that topic in their message feed triggers execution of JavaScript code controlled by the attacker.
CVE-2023-33186
This high-severity CVE scores 8.2 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6%, top 54% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.2
- EG Score
- 8.2(medium)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity82% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 47%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 30, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Sep 8, 2026Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zulip Server development branch via topic tooltip · Advisory · zulip/zulip · GitHub
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-4r83-8f94-hrphtooltips: Add `S` hotkey hint to `narrow-to` tippy tooltips.
Patch available: zulip/zulip 8.3 (PR #25370 merged 2023-05-02)
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/25370commit 3ca131743b00 (zulip/zulip)
Patch available: zulip/zulip 8.3 (contains commit 3ca131743b00)
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/3ca131743b00f42bad8edbac4ef92656d954c629commit 03cfb3d9fe61 (zulip/zulip)
Patch available: zulip/zulip 8.3 (contains commit 03cfb3d9fe61)
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/03cfb3d9fe61c975d133121ec31a7357f0c9e18fWeakness Classification(1)
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