CVE-2019-16958 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.7.0 allows attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via Location Name.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.7.0 allows attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via Location Name.

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2020-12-01T17:57:13.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:24:48.580Z

09References

• www.solarwinds.com — https://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/free-help-desk-software
• www.esecforte.com — https://www.esecforte.com/cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-with-solarwinds-web…