What is CVE-2017-10970?

CVE-2017-10970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cacti, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-10970?

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

XSS in Cacti

CVE-2017-10970

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 allows remote anonymous users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-07-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

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

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 49th percentile — 48.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cacti — versions 1.1.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1038908 (vdb-entry)
github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/838 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10970?: CVE-2017-10970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cacti, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-10970?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.