What is CVE-2017-15736?

CVE-2017-15736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spip, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-15736?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Spip

CVE-2017-15736

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability (stored) in SPIP before 3.1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string, as demonstrated by a PGP field, related to prive/objets/contenu/auteur.html and ecrire/inc/texte_mini.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-10-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Spip

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23701 (Issue Tracking)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4228 (vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4536-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-15736?: CVE-2017-15736 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spip, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-15736?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.