Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package grafana  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GRAFANA-1195885
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed20 Dec 2018

Introduced: 20 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-1000816  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grafana package and not the grafana package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Grafana version confirmed for 5.2.4 and 5.3.0 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Influxdb and Graphite query editor that can result in Running arbitrary js code in victims browser.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Authenticated user must click on the input field where the payload was previously inserted..