FKIE_CVE-2017-7944

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-24 10:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:25
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
XOOPS Core 2.5.8.1 has XSS due to unescaped HTML output of an Install DB failure error message in page_dbsettings.php.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97978Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://tsublogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/xoops-core-2-5-8-1-install-db-cross-site-scripting/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97978Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://tsublogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/xoops-core-2-5-8-1-install-db-cross-site-scripting/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xoops xoops 2.5.8.1
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