What is CVE-2018-10061?

CVE-2018-10061 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cacti, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-10061?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Cacti

CVE-2018-10061

Cacti before 1.1.37 has XSS because it makes certain htmlspecialchars calls without the ENT_QUOTES flag (these calls occur when the html_escape function in lib/html.php is not used).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-04-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Cacti
Debian Linux — versions 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/1457 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.cacti.net/changelog.php (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1040620 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00038.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10061?: CVE-2018-10061 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cacti, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-10061?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.