CVE-2018-1000160: Risingstack Protect

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

RisingStack protect version 1.2.0 and earlier contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in isXss() function in lib/rules/xss.js that can result in dangerous XSS strings being validated as safe. This attack appears to be exploitable via A number of XSS strings(26) detailed in the GitHub issue #16.

Affected products

• Risingstack Protect: up to and including 1.2.0

Published 2018-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.