CVE-2019-18926
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSystematic IRIS Standards Management (ISM) v2.1 SP1 89 is vulnerable to unauthenticated reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS). A user input (related to dialog information) is reflected directly in the web page, allowing a malicious user to conduct a Cross Site Scripting attack against users of the application.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceSystematic IRIS Standards Management (ISM) v2.1 SP1 89 contains an unauthenticated reflected XSS vulnerability where user-supplied input related to dialog information is directly reflected into the web page output without proper sanitization or encoding, allowing attackers to inject malicious JavaScript.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 2.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify IRIS Standards Management is installedLocate the ISM application installation directory or check for ISM-related services running on the systemAffected if The application is installed and running on the server
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Confirm installed version is 2.1Check the application version through the software's about dialog, version file, or installation metadataAffected if The installed version is exactly 2.1 (SP1 89)
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Verify web interface is accessibleAttempt to access the ISM web portal via HTTP/HTTPS on the configured portAffected if The web interface is exposed and reachable over the network
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Check if dialog-related functionality is enabledExamine the application's feature configuration or module settings for dialog/dialog information handlingAffected if Dialog-related functionality is enabled and processes user input through URL parameters
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Inspect URL parameters in dialog featuresReview application URLs that contain dialog-related parameters and examine how user input is reflected in responsesAffected if User-supplied parameters are directly echoed back in HTML without encoding
The environment is affected if Systematic IRIS Standards Management version 2.1 is installed with its web interface accessible and dialog-related features processing user input that gets reflected in responses.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement server-side input validation and output encoding for all user-controlled parameters, particularly those used in dialog-related functionality. Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to mitigate XSS execution.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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