What is CVE-2018-16480?

CVE-2018-16480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HackerOne Public, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-02-01.

How severe is CVE-2018-16480?

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

Is CVE-2018-16480 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in HackerOne Public

CVE-2018-16480

A XSS vulnerability was found in module public <0.1.4 that allows malicious Javascript code to run in the browser, due to the absence of sanitization of the file/folder names before rendering.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-02-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (53.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 53.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

HackerOne Public — versions <0.1.4
Public Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2018-16480

References

hackerone.com/reports/329950 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.npmjs.com/package/public (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16480?: CVE-2018-16480 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HackerOne Public, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-02-01.
How severe is CVE-2018-16480?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-16480 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.