Vulnerability in baserCMS (CVE-2018-18943)
Summary
Vulnerability in baserCMS (CVE-2018-18943). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in baserCMS before 4.1.4. In the Register New Category feature of the Upload menu, the category name can be used for XSS via the data[UploaderCategory][name] parameter to an admin/uploader/uploader_categories/edit URI.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-18943 has been found in baserCMS.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "baserCMS CVE-2018-18943" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2018-18943 (baserCMS)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in baserCMS.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of baserCMS.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'baserCMS' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'baserCMS' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
baserCMSを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory basercms.net
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- report sunu11.com
- web web.archive.org
- web web.archive.org