What is CVE-2017-6488?

CVE-2017-6488 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Epesi, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-6488?

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

XSS in Epesi

CVE-2017-6488

Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in EPESI 1.8.1.1. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (visible, tab, cid) passed to the EPESI-master/modules/Utils/RecordBrowser/Filters/save_filters.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: 0.008 (52.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Epesi — versions 1.8.1.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6488?: CVE-2017-6488 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Epesi, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-6488?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.