CVE-2018-16050
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Record
CVE-2018-16050- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Record
CVE-2018-16050- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-7907 No score
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Record
EUVD-2018-7907- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xc57-g4hr-v2m6
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2...
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Record
GHSA-xc57-g4hr-v2m6- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11.1.x before 11.1.5 and 11.2.x before 11.2.2. There is Persistent XSS in the Merge Request Changes View.
- Record
CVE-2018-16050- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2018-16050 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Gitlab, published October 3, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.81%, the 57th percentile. No source names a fixed version.