Brother HL Printers Cross-site Scripting (CVE-2018-11581)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 503368

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on Brother HL series printers allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the url parameter to etc/loginerror.html.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.

Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 503368

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 10/23/2025

Updated: 10/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:brother:hl-l2340d_firmware, cpe:/o:brother:hl-l2380dw_firmware

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Brother

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11581

CWE: 79

Detections

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