Medium severity · published May 11, 2017
CVE-2017-8897
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the…
6.1
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IP
Invision Power Board · Invisioncommunity
through 4.1.19.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8897
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8897
Third Party Advisory
http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt
Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864
Exploit
https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248
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