Description
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Kibana | 8.19.0 – ≤ 8.19.19, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.4.4 | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-2824 Kibana: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Aug 13, 2026