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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2018-6561 json

dijit editor cross-site scripting vulnerability

published 2018-02-02 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-wp32-wq34-2rqh , EUVD-2022-5607

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • npm dijit 1.13.1
  • dojo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.13.0+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6561

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-6561 updated cvss 6.1

dojo: XSS via the onload attribute of an SVG element

  • Red Hat Satellite 5 dojo
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/imsebao/404team/blob/master/dijit_editor_xss.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm dijit
<1.13.1
1.13.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.