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CVE-2018-1999022

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

PEAR HTML_QuickForm version 3.2.14 contains an eval injection (CWE-95) vulnerability in HTML_QuickForm's getSubmitValue method, HTML_QuickForm's validate method, HTML_QuickForm_hierselect's _setOptions method, HTML_QuickForm_element's _findValue method, HTML_QuickForm_element's _prepareValue method. that can result in Possible information disclosure, possible impact on data integrity and execution of arbitrary code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A specially crafted query string could be utilised, e.g. http://www.example.com/admin/add_practice_type_id[1]=fubar%27])%20OR%20die(%27OOK!%27);%20//&mode=live. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 3.2.15.

Affected products

• CiviCRM: through 4.6.37; 5.3.0
• Html Quickform Project Html Quickform: 3.2.14

References

• http://blog.pear.php.net/2018/07/19/security-vulnerability-announcement-html_quickform/
• https://civicrm.org/advisory/civi-sa-2018-07-remote-code-execution-in-quickform
• http://blog.pear.php.net/2018/07/19/security-vulnerability-announcement-html_quickform/
• https://civicrm.org/advisory/civi-sa-2018-07-remote-code-execution-in-quickform

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