CVE-2018-18307 (GCVE-0-2018-18307)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-08-29 15:03 Disputed
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Summary
A Stored XSS vulnerability has been discovered in version 4.1.0 of AlchemyCMS via the /admin/pictures image field. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this is not a valid report: "The researcher used an authorized cookie to perform the request to a password-protected route. Without that session cookie, the request would have been rejected as unauthorized."
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-10-14 00:00
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