CVE-2018-9155 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open-AudIT Professional 2

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted name of a component, as demonstrated by the Admin->Logs section (with a logs?logs.type= URI) and the Manage->Attributes sec

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted name of a component, as demonstrated by the Admin->Logs section (with a logs?logs.type= URI) and the Manage->Attributes section (via the "Name (display)" field to the attributes/create URI).

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: 2018-04-12T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:17:51.475Z

09References

• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44612/
• docs.google.com — https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZG1qiwpECbVnv92yNckDn7yyuluKoC2_ON-eLhAY97Q/…