What is CVE-2018-13000?

CVE-2018-13000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Anelectron Advanced Electron Forum, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-06-29.

How severe is CVE-2018-13000?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Anelectron Advanced Electron Forum

CVE-2018-13000

An XSS issue was discovered in Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) v1.0.9. A persistent XSS vulnerability is located in the `FTP Link` element of the `Private Message` module. The editor of the private message module allows inserting links without sanitizing the content. This allows remote attackers to inject malicious script code payloads as a private message (aka pmbody). The injection point is the editor ftp link element and the execution point occurs in the message body context on arrival. The request method to inject is POST with restricted user privileges.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (57.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Anelectron Advanced_electron_forum — versions 1.0.9
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-13000?: CVE-2018-13000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Anelectron Advanced Electron Forum, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-06-29.
How severe is CVE-2018-13000?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.