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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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.

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CVE-2018-20724
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31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-20724

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jan 2019, 16:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2018-20724
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:06.731436205Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/2212",
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  "document_id": 381294,
  "published_at": "2019-01-16T16:29:00.557+00:00"
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