CVE-2018-18307

MEDIUM

AlchemyCMS 4.1.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Admin Pictures Image Field

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2018-18307. PoCs published by Ismail Tasdelen.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in AlchemyCMS 4.1 via the /admin/pictures image field. The payload is injected through the filename parameter of a multipart/form-data POST request.

Description

A Stored XSS vulnerability has been discovered in version 4.1.0 of AlchemyCMS via the /admin/pictures image field. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this is not a valid report: "The researcher used an authorized cookie to perform the request to a password-protected route. Without that session cookie, the request would have been rejected as unauthorized."

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Ismail Tasdelen · textwebappsruby
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45601

This exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in AlchemyCMS 4.1 via the /admin/pictures image field. The payload is injected through the filename parameter of a multipart/form-data POST request.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: AlchemyCMS 4.1-stable
Auth required
Prerequisites: Valid session cookie · CSRF token · Access to the admin interface
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 57.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
alchemy-cms/alchemy_cms 4.1.0
rubygems/alchemy_cms RubyGems
Published Oct 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026