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CVE-2018-19493

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19493 is a persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions versions 11.x before 11.3.11, 11.4.x before 11.4.8, and 11.5.x before 11.5.1. This flaw stems from insufficient input validation and output encoding on environment pages, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.1, it requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L) if exploited. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 11.0.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.0.0, < 11.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 11.4.0, < 11.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 11.5.0, < 11.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

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
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

about.gitlab.com / 2018/11/28/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-5-dot-1-released
Release NotesVendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53037
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/109122
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry