What is CVE-2018-16236?

CVE-2018-16236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cpanel, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2018-16236?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Cpanel

CVE-2018-16236

cPanel through 74 allows XSS via a crafted filename in the logs subdirectory of a user account, because the filename is mishandled during frontend/THEME/raw/index.html rendering.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (48.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Cpanel
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-2018-16236?: CVE-2018-16236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cpanel, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-16236?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.