High · published August 14, 2026
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.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.20 | 8.19.20 |
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.5 | 9.4.5 |