CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8898
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
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.
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 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248 Exploit, Third Party Advisory