CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8897
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.
Affected configurations
• invisioncommunity invision power board (<= 4.1.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864 Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864 Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248 Exploit, Third Party Advisory