What is CVE-2018-8978?

CVE-2018-8978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2018-8978?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Open-Audit

CVE-2018-8978

Open-AudIT Professional 2.1 has XSS via a crafted src attribute of an IMG element within a URI.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Open-Audit — versions 2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8978?: CVE-2018-8978 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2018-8978?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.