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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-10686

An issue was discovered in Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8-20. There is Reflected XSS via $_REQUEST['path'] to the view/file/index.php URI, which can lead to remote PHP code execution via vectors involving a file_put_contents call in web/upload/UploadHandler.php.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:33 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-10686

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 May 2018, 05:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8-20. There is Reflected XSS via $_REQUEST['path'] to the view/file/index.php URI, which can lead to remote PHP code execution via vectors involving a file_put_contents call in web/upload/UploadHandler.php.

osv:CVE-2018-10686
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10686",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8-20. There is Reflected XSS via $_REQUEST['path'] to the view/file/index.php URI, which can lead to remote PHP code execution via vectors involving a file_put_contents call in web/upload/UploadHandler.php.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-10686",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:36.885186301Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://medium.com/%40ndrbasi/cve-2018-10686-vestacp-rce-d96d95c2bde2",
        "https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta/issues/1558"
      ],
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        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-10686",
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441395,
  "published_at": "2018-05-06T05:29:00.213+00:00"
}