What is CVE-2017-9786?

CVE-2017-9786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Projectsend, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-9786?

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

XSS in Projectsend

CVE-2017-9786

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ProjectSend (formerly cFTP) before commit 6c3710430be26feb5371cb0377e5355d6f9a27ca allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field in My account Name updated, related to home.php and actions-log.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-03-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 62.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Projectsend

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/ignacionelson/ProjectSend/pull/448/commits/6c3710430be26feb5371cb037… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9786?: CVE-2017-9786 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Projectsend, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-9786?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.