Cross-site scripting in Radiant CMS - CVE-2018-5216
Published: January 4, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37706
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5216
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Radiant CMS
Affected software:
Radiant CMS
Radiant CMS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing crafted Markdown input in the part_body_content parameter to an admin/pages/*/edit resource. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5216
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.