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CVE-2018-8979 (GCVE-0-2018-8979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-25 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:10
VLAI
Summary
Open-AudIT Professional 2.1 has CSRF, as demonstrated by modifying a user account or inserting XSS sequences via the credentials URI.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-03-25 00:00
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