What is CVE-2018-2431?

CVE-2018-2431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-2431?

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

XSS in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence

CVE-2018-2431

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite, versions 4.10 and 4.20, does not sufficiently encode user controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-07-10 · 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: 0.013 (69.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence — versions 4.10, 4.20
SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence Suite — versions = 4.10, = 4.20

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/104695 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
launchpad.support.sap.com/ (Permissions Required)
wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-2431?: CVE-2018-2431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-2431?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.