FKIE_CVE-2017-9071

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-18 16:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, an attacker might be able to trigger XSS by injecting a payload into the HTTP Host header of a request. This is exploitable only in conjunction with other issues such as Cache Poisoning.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://citadelo.com/en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/13426Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://citadelo.com/en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/13426Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
modx modx_revolution *
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