CVE-2018-17288 — Kofax Front Office Server version 4

Kofax Front Office Server version 4.1.1.11.0.5212 (both Thin Client and Administration Console) suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the (1) "Filename" field in /Kofax/KFS/ThinClient/document/upload/ - (Thin Client) or (2) "DeviceName&

01What is this vulnerability?

Kofax Front Office Server version 4.1.1.11.0.5212 (both Thin Client and Administration Console) suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the (1) "Filename" field in /Kofax/KFS/ThinClient/document/upload/ - (Thin Client) or (2) "DeviceName" field in /Kofax/KFS/Admin/DeviceService/device/ - (Administration Console).

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: 2019-04-18T17:42:22.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:47:04.051Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2018-17288-XSS-Kofa…