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CVE-2017-8898

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has stored XSS in the Announcements, allowing privilege escalation from…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.9%
percentile 80%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.89% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

  • zeroday.insecurity.zone /exploits/ipb_owned.txt · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • twitter.com /insecurity/status/862154908895780864 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • twitter.com /sxcurity/status/862284967715381248 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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