CVE-2018-8156: Microsoft Project Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server, aka "Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project Server. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8149, CVE-2018-8155, CVE-2018-8168.

Affected products

• Microsoft Project Server: version 2010 only; version 2013 only
• Microsoft SharePoint Server: version 2016 only

Published 2018-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.