FKIE_CVE-2018-18307

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-10-16 22:29 - Updated: 2025-08-29 15:15
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
A Stored XSS vulnerability has been discovered in version 4.1.0 of AlchemyCMS via the /admin/pictures image field. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this is not a valid report: "The researcher used an authorized cookie to perform the request to a password-protected route. Without that session cookie, the request would have been rejected as unauthorized."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149787/Alchemy-CMS-4.1-Stable-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/base_controller.rb#L15
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/pictures_controller.rb#L5
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/resources_controller.rb#L21
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45601
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149787/Alchemy-CMS-4.1-Stable-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/base_controller.rb#L15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/pictures_controller.rb#L5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/resources_controller.rb#L21
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
alchemy-cms alchemy_cms 4.1.0
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