PT-2017-18017

CVE-2017-7944

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Published

2017-04-24

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Updated

2017-04-27

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.1
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XOOPS Core version 2.5.8.1
Description The issue is related to unescaped HTML output of an Install DB failure error message in page dbsettings.php, which leads to a cross-site scripting (XSS) problem.
Recommendations For XOOPS Core version 2.5.8.1, update to a newer version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent potential XSS attacks.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-7944
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