What is CVE-2019-13965?

CVE-2019-13965 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Combodo Itop, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2019-13965?

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

XSS in Combodo Itop

CVE-2019-13965

Because of a lack of sanitization around error messages, multiple Reflective XSS issues exist in iTop through 2.6.0 via the param_file parameter to webservices/export.php, webservices/cron.php, or env-production/itop-backup/backup.php. By default, any XSS sent to the administrator can be transformed to remote command execution because of CVE-2018-10642 (still working through 2.6.0) The Reflective XSS can also become a stored XSS within the same account because of another vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-02-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Combodo Itop

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.itophub.io/wiki/page (Release Notes)
0day.love/itop_vulnerabilities_disclosure.pdf (Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13965?: CVE-2019-13965 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Combodo Itop, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2019-13965?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.