PT-2017-18686 · Modx · Modx Revolution

Tomáš Melicher · Published 2017-05-18 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2017-9070

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MODX Revolution versions prior to 2.5.7

Description The issue allows a user with resource edit permissions to inject an XSS payload into the title of any post via the "connectors/index.php" endpoint, specifically through the pagetitle parameter.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.5.7, update to version 2.5.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9070

GHSA-7HHG-XJ2H-5VQ9

Affected Products

Modx Revolution

References · 7

• 🔥 https://citadelo.com/en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms · Exploit
• https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/13415 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9070 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9070 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7hhg-xj2h-5vq9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/modxcms/revolution · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9070 · Note