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CVE-2018-15703 (GCVE-0-2018-15703)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-22 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:57
VLAI
Summary
Advantech WebAccess 8.3.2 and below is vulnerable to multiple reflected cross site scripting vulnerabilities. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim to supply malicious HTML or JavaScript code to WebAccess, which is then reflected back to the victim and executed by the web browser.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Reflected Cross Site Scripting
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Advantech Advantech WebAccess Affected: 8.3.2 and below
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Date Public
2018-10-18 00:00
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