What is CVE-2017-17792?

CVE-2017-17792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Blogotext Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-12-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-17792?

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

XSS in Blogotext Project

CVE-2017-17792

Cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the markup_clean_href function in inc/conv.php in BlogoText through 3.7.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript via a comment.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-12-20 · 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 (61.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 61.7% 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

Blogotext Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/BlogoText/blogotext/issues/345 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/BlogoText/blogotext/commit/7c6f74e43008b2397160775696c67acbab87911d (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17792?: CVE-2017-17792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Blogotext Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-12-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-17792?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.