CVE-2018-14485

published 2019-05-07

CVE-2018-14485: BlogEngine.NET 3.3 allows XXE attacks via the POST body to metaweblog.axd.

Priority P2 63 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

BlogEngine.NET 3.3 allows XXE attacks via the POST body to metaweblog.axd.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
blogengine	blogengine.net	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url http://websiteurl-blogengine3.3/metaweblog.axd↗

path /metaweblog.axd↗

command ]>&lfi;↗

• → Monitor POST requests to metaweblog.axd for XXE payloads in the BodyXML parameter ↗
• → Inspect POST body to metaweblog.axd for XML external entity declarations (e.g., DOCTYPE with ENTITY references) ↗

• · Vulnerability is reported as 'Not Fixed' at time of advisory release; no patch was available as of January 2019 ↗
• · Affected version is specifically BlogEngine.NET 3.3; verify version before applying detections ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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