CVE-2018-12944

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Categories" feature in SeedDMS (formerly LetoDMS and MyDMS) before 5.1.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name field.

Affected products

Seeddms: before 5.1.8 — fixed in 5.1.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Seeddms 5.1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/seeddms/code/ci/seeddms-5.1.x/tree/CHANGELOG
https://www.contextis.com/resources/advisories/cve-2018-12944
https://sourceforge.net/p/seeddms/code/ci/seeddms-5.1.x/tree/CHANGELOG
https://www.contextis.com/resources/advisories/cve-2018-12944

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