VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-14037

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.17%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Progress Kendo UI Editor v2018.1.221 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the DOM of the WYSIWYG editor because of the editorNS.Serializer toEditableHtml function in kendo.all.min.js. If the victim accesses the editor, the payload gets executed. Furthermore, if the payload is reflected at any other resource that does rely on the sanitisation of the editor itself, the JavaScript payload will be executed in the context of the application. This allows attackers (in the worst case) to take over user sessions.

CVSS 3.0: 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 1.17% probability · 67th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-79
Affected: progress/kendo ui
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 1.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/49Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/50Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.sec-consult.com/en/blog/advisories/stored-cross-site-scripting-in-kendo-ui-editor-cve-2018-14037/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/49Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/50Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.sec-consult.com/en/blog/advisories/stored-cross-site-scripting-in-kendo-ui-editor-cve-2018-14037/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.