What is CVE-2017-8897?

CVE-2017-8897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision_power_board, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2017-8897?

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

XSS in Invisioncommunity Invision_power_board

CVE-2017-8897

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (52.2th 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

Invisioncommunity Invision_power_board
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8897?: CVE-2017-8897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision_power_board, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2017-8897?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.