SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-5230

The issue collector in Atlassian Jira before version 7.6.6, from version 7.7.0 before version 7.7.4, from version 7.8.0 before version 7.8.4 and from version 7.9.0 before version 7.9.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a…

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 37.0%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 37.0%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The issue collector in Atlassian Jira before version 7.6.6, from version 7.7.0 before version 7.7.4, from version 7.8.0 before version 7.8.4 and from version 7.9.0 before version 7.9.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the error message of custom fields when an invalid value is specified.

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
37.03% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
atlassian/jira · atlassian/jira server
Source
security@atlassian.com
EPSS trend
0%20%40%21 September 2026: 24.40%22 September 2026: 37.61%27 October 2026: 37.03%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 24.4% on 21 September 2026 to 37.0% on 27 October 2026, peaking at 37.6% on 22 September 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

References

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