What is CVE-2017-6217?

CVE-2017-6217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Paypal Adaptive Payments Sdk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2017-6217?

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

XSS in Paypal Adaptive Payments Sdk

CVE-2017-6217

paypal/adaptivepayments-sdk-php v3.9.2 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in the SetPaymentOptions.php resulting code execution

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-07-10 · 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: 0.012 (67.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Paypal Adaptive Payments Sdk — versions 3.9.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/paypal/adaptivepayments-sdk-php/issues/87 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6217?: CVE-2017-6217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Paypal Adaptive Payments Sdk, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2017-6217?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.