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FKIE_CVE-2017-1000223

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-11-17 05:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:58

Severity

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

A stored web content injection vulnerability (WCI, a.k.a XSS) is present in MODX Revolution CMS version 2.5.6 and earlier. An authenticated user with permissions to edit users can save malicious JavaScript as a User Group name and potentially take control over victims' accounts. This can lead to an escalation of privileges providing complete administrative control over the CMS.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modxcms/revolution/v2.5.7-pl/core/docs/changelog.txt	Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modxcms/revolution/v2.5.7-pl/core/docs/changelog.txt	Release Notes, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	modx	modx_revolution	*

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:58:56.067",
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CVE-2017-1000223 (GCVE-0-2017-1000223)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-17 05:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:52

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2369 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modxcms/revolut…	x_refsource_MISC

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Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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