PT-2018-18756 · Open Audit · Open-Audit Professional

Nilesh Sapariya · Published 2018-03-25 · Updated 2018-04-18 · CVE-2018-8978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Open-AudIT Professional version 2.1

Description The issue is related to a crafted src attribute of an IMG element within a URI, which can lead to XSS.

Recommendations For Open-AudIT Professional version 2.1, consider validating and sanitizing all user-inputted data, especially for the src attribute of IMG elements, to prevent XSS attacks. As a temporary workaround, restrict the ability to input custom src attributes for IMG elements until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8978

Affected Products

Open-Audit Professional

References · 3

• 🔥 https://nileshsapariya.blogspot.ae/2018/03/open-redirect-to-reflected-xss-open.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8978 · Security Note