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CVE-2018-16516

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16516 describes a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Flask-Admin versions up to 1.5.2, specifically within the helpers.py component, which can be triggered via a crafted URL. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction (UI:R) and network access (AV:N) to exploit, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:flask-admin_project:flask-admin:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0122 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: flask-adminFixed in: 1.5.3
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-894g-6j7q-2hx6medium

Flask-Admin Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Dec 19, 2018

References

github.com / flask-admin/flask-admin/pull/1699
ExploitVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UJIYCWIH3BRLI2QNC53CQXLKVP27X7EH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZU2VKULURVXEU4YFTLMBQGYMPSXQ4MBN