CVE-2018-12229: Sfu Open Journal System

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Journal System (OJS) 3.0.0 to 3.1.1-1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the templates/frontend/pages/search.tpl parameter (aka the By Author field).

Affected products

• Sfu Open Journal System: after 3.0.0, up to and including 3.1.1-1

Published 2018-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.