PT-2018-11273 · Public Knowledge · Open Monograph Press

Alec Smecher · Published 2018-06-19 · Updated 2018-08-11 · CVE-2018-12588

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Monograph Press (OMP) versions 1.2.0 through 3.1.1-2

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the catalog.noTitlesSearch parameter, also known as the Search field.

Recommendations For versions 1.2.0 through 3.1.1-2, update to version 3.1.1-3 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-12588

Affected Products

Open Monograph Press

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/3805 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/ojs-3-1-1-2-and-omp-3-1-1-3-released/45937 · Exploit
• https://github.com/pkp/omp/commit/bfdcdec64865238163282c5940a6c7896c0977bf · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12588 · Security Note
• https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/xss-vulnerability-alert/45938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12588 · Vendor Advisory
• https://metamorfosec.com/Files/Advisories/METS-2018-002-A_XSS_Vulnerability_in_OMP_1.2.0_to_3.1.1-2.txt · Note