What is CVE-2017-9070?

CVE-2017-9070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Modx Revolution, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-05-18.

How severe is CVE-2017-9070?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Modx Revolution

CVE-2017-9070

In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, a user with resource edit permissions can inject an XSS payload into the title of any post via the pagetitle parameter to connectors/index.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (43.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Modx Modx_revolution
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9070?: CVE-2017-9070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Modx Revolution, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-05-18.
How severe is CVE-2017-9070?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.