CVE-2017-8898 (GCVE-0-2017-8898)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-11 17:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:10
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has stored XSS in the Announcements, allowing privilege escalation from an Invision Power Board moderator to an admin. An attack uses the announce_content parameter in an index.php?/modcp/announcements/&action=create request. This is related to the "<> Source" option.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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