What is CVE-2017-6537?

CVE-2017-6537 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Webpagetest Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2017-6537?

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

XSS in Webpagetest Project

CVE-2017-6537

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (bgcolor) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/video/view.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 (54.0th 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

Webpagetest_project Webpagetest — versions 3.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6537?: CVE-2017-6537 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Webpagetest Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2017-6537?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.