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CVE-2018-18405

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18405 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jQuery version 2.2.2, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts via a specially crafted onerror attribute within an IMG element. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to information disclosure (C:L) and integrity compromise (I:L). Despite its potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 86th 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: jquery

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-18405

jquery: crafted onerror attribute of an IMG element could result in XSS

Apr 22, 2020

References

gist.github.com / CyberSecurityUP/26c5b032897630fe8407da4a8ef216d4
gitter.im / jquery/jquery
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOE7P7APPRQKD4FGNHBKJPDY6FFCOH3W
twitter.com / DanielRufde/status/1255185961866145792