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CVE-2018-20242

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20242 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache JSPWiki versions up to 2.10.5, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts via a specially crafted URL. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) has a low attack complexity and could lead to session hijacking, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of user sessions. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:jspwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0536 is in the 96th 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

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 (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.jspwiki:jspwiki-warFixed in: 2.11.0.M1

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-5q75-cxcq-wr26medium

Cross-site Scripting in jspwiki-war

Feb 12, 2019

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/8ee4644432c0a433c5c514a57d940cf6dcb0a0094acd97b36290f0b4%40%3Cuser.jspwiki.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/aac253cfc33c0429b528e2fcbe82d3a42d742083c528f58d192dfd16%40%3Ccommits.jspwiki.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/e42d6e93384d4a33e939989cd00ea2a06ccf1e7bb1e6bdd3bf5187c1%40%3Ccommits.jspwiki.apache.org%3E
securityfocus.com / bid/106804
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry