Medium
Security advisory
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."
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18307
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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."
osv:CVE-2018-18307
Complete source record
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"https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/4.1-stable/app/controllers/alchemy/admin/resources_controller.rb#L21",
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