CVE-2017-8898 — Cross-site Scripting in Invision Power Board

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board
Timeline
PublishedMay 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has stored XSS in the Announcements, allowing privilege escalation from an Invision Power Board moderator to an admin. An attack uses the announce_content parameter in an index.php?/modcp/announcements/&action=create request. This is related to the "<> Source" option.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vmjh-562q-x3v3: Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-8898: Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4↗2017-05-11
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CVE-2017-8898 — Cross-site Scripting | cvebase