What is CVE-2017-6909?

CVE-2017-6909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Shishnet Shimmie, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-6909?

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

XSS in Shishnet Shimmie

CVE-2017-6909

An issue was discovered in Shimmie <= 2.5.1. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (log) passed to the "shimmie2-master/ext/chatbox/history/index.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 (51.5th 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

Shishnet Shimmie
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6909?: CVE-2017-6909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Shishnet Shimmie, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-6909?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.