Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU39140

Cross-site scripting in XOOPS - CVE-2017-7944

Published: April 24, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU39140

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7944

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Xoops.sourceforge.net

Affected software:
XOOPS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

XOOPS Core 2.5.8.1 has XSS due to unescaped HTML output of an Install DB failure error message in page_dbsettings.php.

Install update from vendor's website.