Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-5230 · published 14 May 2018

CVE-2018-5230: Atlassian jira cross-site scripting vulnerability

Atlassian · Jira

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.

6.1 CVSS 3.0 Medium EPSS 38% · top 1.5% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

6.1CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 4.3

38%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

2Affected product versions listed by NVD

2References

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Jira Atlassian

Jira Server Atlassian

References

Link	Tags
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-67289	Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-67289	Issue TrackingVendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-5230), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.