What is CVE-2018-10165?

CVE-2018-10165 is a medium-severity vulnerability in TP-Link Eap Controller, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-05-03.

How severe is CVE-2018-10165?

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

XSS in TP-Link Eap Controller

CVE-2018-10165

Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the TP-Link EAP Controller and Omada Controller versions 2.5.4_Windows/2.6.0_Windows allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the userName parameter in the local user creation functionality. This is fixed in version 2.6.1_Windows.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (45.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Tp-link Eap_controller — versions 2.5.4, 2.6.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10165?: CVE-2018-10165 is a medium-severity vulnerability in TP-Link Eap Controller, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-05-03.
How severe is CVE-2018-10165?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.