What is CVE-2018-8937?

CVE-2018-8937 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-8937?

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

Open Redirect in Open-Audit

CVE-2018-8937

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1. It is possible to inject a malicious payload in the redirect_url parameter to the /login URI to trigger an open redirect. A "data:text/html;base64," payload can be used with JavaScript code.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

Published 2018-03-26 · 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: 0.007 (50.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 50.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Open-Audit — versions 2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

nileshsapariya.blogspot.ae/2018/03/open-redirect-to-reflected-xss-open.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8937?: CVE-2018-8937 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-8937?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.