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CVE-2018-18943

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.8)—

An issue was discovered in baserCMS before 4.1.4. In the Register New Category feature of the Upload menu, the category name can be used for XSS via the data[UploaderCategory][name] parameter to an admin/uploader/uploader_categories/edit URI.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Basercms — Basercms

CWEs

References

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