CVE-2018-1736: IBM WebSphere Portal

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a malicious Web site that would appear to be trusted. This could allow the attacker to obtain highly sensitive information or conduct further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 147906.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Portal: version 7.0.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.0.2 only; version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.5.0.0 only; …

Published 2018-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.