CVE-2018-20724
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in pollers.php in Cacti before 1.2.0 due to lack of escaping of unintended characters in the Website Hostname for Data Collectors.
02 Description
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in pollers.php in Cacti before 1.2.0 due to lack of escaping of unintended characters in the Website Hostname for Data Collectors.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 63.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-01-16 16:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 12:12Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-01-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- bbd62d0587593faaad3ad2d8e893ce0674b1346cdb631309f6c3416b079e0f63
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/2212
- github.comhttps://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/CHANGELOG
- github.comhttps://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/1f42478506d83d188f68ce5ff41728a7bd159f53
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0272http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00001.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0284http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00005.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0558http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0565http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00048.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cacti Fixed in 1.2.1+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cacti Fixed in 1.2.1+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cacti Fixed in 1.2.1+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- cacti No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- cacti No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.