What is CVE-2017-16230?

CVE-2017-16230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typecho, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-10-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-16230?

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

XSS in Typecho

CVE-2017-16230

In admin/write-post.php in Typecho through 1.1, one can log in to the background page, write a new article, and add payload in the article content, resulting in XSS via index.php/action/contents-post-edit.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (40.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Typecho
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16230?: CVE-2017-16230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typecho, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-10-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-16230?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.