PT-2017-18017 · Xoops · Xoops Core

Nguyen Thanh Nguyen · Published 2017-04-24 · Updated 2017-04-27 · CVE-2017-7944

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XOOPS Core version 2.5.8.1

Description The issue is related to unescaped HTML output of an Install DB failure error message in page dbsettings.php, which leads to a cross-site scripting (XSS) problem.

Recommendations For XOOPS Core version 2.5.8.1, update to a newer version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent potential XSS attacks.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7944

Affected Products

Xoops Core

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7944 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7944 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tsublogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/xoops-core-2-5-8-1-install-db-cross-site-scripting · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97978 · Note