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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-20485

Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 5.7 before build 5702 has XSS in the employee search feature.

EXPLOITMEDIUM 6.1EPSS 5.27%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 5.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 5.7 before build 5702 has XSS in the employee search feature.

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
5.27% probability · 93th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 9 May 2019
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
zohocorp/manageengine adselfservice plus
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 8.91%22 September 2026: 5.27%27 October 2026: 5.27%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 8.9% on 21 September 2026 to 5.3% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-46815source ↗Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 5.7 < 5702 build - Cross-Site Scriptingphp · Ibrahim Raafatwebapps9 May 2019no

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