What is CVE-2017-6908?

CVE-2017-6908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Concrete5, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-6908?

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

XSS in Concrete5

CVE-2017-6908

An issue was discovered in concrete5 <= 5.6.3.4. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (fID) passed to the "concrete5-legacy-master/web/concrete/tools/files/selector_data.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: 0.012 (64.8th 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

Concrete5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6908?: CVE-2017-6908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Concrete5, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-6908?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.