CVE-2018-14849 — Tiki before 18

Tiki before 18.2, 15.7 and 12.14 has XSS via link attributes, related to lib/core/WikiParser/OutputLink.php and lib/parser/parserlib.php.

01What is this vulnerability?

Tiki before 18.2, 15.7 and 12.14 has XSS via link attributes, related to lib/core/WikiParser/OutputLink.php and lib/parser/parserlib.php.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-08-13T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T09:38:14.078Z

09References

• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/02/1
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/02/2
• sourceforge.net — https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66809