CVE-2018-6561

Exp

dijit.Editor in Dojo Toolkit 1.13 allows XSS via the onload attribute of an SVG element.

Published: 2018-02-02 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-6561 is rated Exploit Available (54.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.20%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2018-6561

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-6561

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-07-12 0.32% 0.20% -0.12%
2 2025-04-30 0.48% 0.32% -0.16%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.48% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-6561

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-6561

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2018-6561

GHSA-wp32-wq34-2rqh · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: npm — dijit editor cross-site scripting vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-6561

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2018-6561 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dojo), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6561
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6561
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-6561 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dojo), 20 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 12, deferred 6, DNE 1, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6561

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-6561

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dojotoolkit dojo 1.13.0 cpe:2.3:a:dojotoolkit:dojo:1.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-6561

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