{"id":"CVE-2018-19858","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-19858","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:28:54.627Z","title":"PrinceXML, versions 10 and below, is vulnerable to XXE due to the lack of protection against external entities.","description":"PrinceXML, versions 10 and below, is vulnerable to XXE due to the lack of protection against external entities. If an attacker passes HTML referencing an XML file (e.g., in an IFRAME element), PrinceXML will fetch the XML and parse it, thus giving an attacker file-read access and full-fledged SSRF.","published":"2019-01-30T15:29:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:50:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.6,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-611"],"affected":["princexml/princexml"],"epss":{"score":0.02597,"percentile":0.85252,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.60%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://hacking.us.com/blog/XSS-to-XXE-in-Prince/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.lynxsecurity.io/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YIzYtWhzM","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://hacking.us.com/blog/XSS-to-XXE-in-Prince/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.lynxsecurity.io/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YIzYtWhzM","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19858","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}