Medium
Security advisory
A malicious user with enough administration entitlements can inject html-like elements containing JavaScript statements into Connector names, Report names, AnyTypeClass keys and Policy descriptions. When another user with enough administration entitlements edits one of the Entities above via Admin Console, the injected JavaScript code is executed.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-17184
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A malicious user with enough administration entitlements can inject html-like elements containing JavaScript statements into Connector names, Report names, AnyTypeClass keys and Policy descriptions. When another user with enough administration entitlements edits one of the Entities above via Admin Console, the injected JavaScript code is executed.
osv:CVE-2018-17184
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2018-17184",
"summary": "A malicious user with enough administration entitlements can inject html-like elements containing JavaScript statements into Connector names, Report names, AnyTypeClass keys and Policy descriptions. When another user with enough administration entitlements edits one of the Entities above via Admin Console, the injected JavaScript code is executed.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.219918008Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://syncope.apache.org/security#CVE-2018-17184:_Stored_XSS"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430625,
"published_at": "2018-11-06T19:29:00.433+00:00"
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