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CVE-2018-18307

Published: Oct 16, 2018

Modified: Aug 29, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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."

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149787/Alchemy-CMS-4.1-Stable-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/pictures_controller.rb#L5

https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/resources_controller.rb#L21

https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/base_controller.rb#L15

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45601

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