What is CVE-2017-5961?

CVE-2017-5961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ionizecms Ionize, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-5961?

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

Is CVE-2017-5961 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Ionizecms Ionize

CVE-2017-5961

An issue was discovered in ionize through 1.0.8. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the "path" HTTP GET parameter passed to the "ionize-master/themes/admin/javascript/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/codemirror/dialog.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.010 (58.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Ionizecms Ionize
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

SexyBeast233/SecBooks

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5961?: CVE-2017-5961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ionizecms Ionize, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-5961?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-5961 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.