What is CVE-2020-6272?

CVE-2020-6272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-10-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-6272?

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

XSS in SAP Commerce Cloud

CVE-2020-6272

SAP Commerce Cloud versions - 1808, 1811, 1905, 2005, does not sufficiently encode user inputs, which allows an authenticated and authorized content manager to inject malicious script into several web CMS components. These can be saved and later triggered, if an affected web page is visited, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-10-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (43.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 43rd percentile — 43.0% 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

SAP Commerce Cloud — versions 1808, 1811, 1905
SAP Se Commerce Cloud — versions < 1808, < 1811, < 1905

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action (Vendor Advisory)
launchpad.support.sap.com/ (Permissions Required)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-6272?: CVE-2020-6272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-10-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-6272?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.