CVE-2018-18927 — An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4

An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4.0. It allows XSS by modifying the page_list "attached" attribute (which typically has 'class="icon-globe icon-large"' in its value), as demonstrated by an 'UPDATE sys_module SET attached = "[XSS]"

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4.0. It allows XSS by modifying the page_list "attached" attribute (which typically has 'class="icon-globe icon-large"' in its value), as demonstrated by an 'UPDATE sys_module SET attached = "[XSS]" WHERE id="page_list"' statement.

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: 2018-11-04T06:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:23:08.473Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/sanluan/PublicCMS/issues/22