CVE-2018-20915 — cPanel before 70

cPanel before 70.0.23 allows stored XSS via a WHM Edit DNS Zone action (SEC-369).

01What is this vulnerability?

cPanel before 70.0.23 allows stored XSS via a WHM Edit DNS Zone action (SEC-369).

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: 2019-08-01T14:45:12.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T12:12:29.585Z

09References

• documentation.cpanel.net — https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CL/70+Change+Log