CVE-2019-16238 — Afterlogic Aurora through 8

Afterlogic Aurora through 8.3.9-build-a3 has XSS that can be leveraged for session hijacking by retrieving the session cookie from the administrator login.

01What is this vulnerability?

Afterlogic Aurora through 8.3.9-build-a3 has XSS that can be leveraged for session hijacking by retrieving the session cookie from the administrator login.

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: 2019-09-12T15:53:03.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:10:41.643Z

09References

• www.sevenlayers.com — https://www.sevenlayers.com/index.php/247-afterlogic-aurora-v8-3-9-build-a3-xss-…