What is CVE-2014-5144?

CVE-2014-5144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Telescopeapp Telescope, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-08-09.

How severe is CVE-2014-5144?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Telescopeapp Telescope

CVE-2014-5144

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Telescope before 0.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted markdown.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-08-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Telescopeapp Telescope

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36463/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)
www.telescopeapp.org/blog/telescope-v093-dailyscope/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-5144?: CVE-2014-5144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Telescopeapp Telescope, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-08-09.
How severe is CVE-2014-5144?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.