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GHSA-7HHG-XJ2H-5VQ9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 02:43 – Updated: 2025-04-22 18:43

Summary

MODX Revolution cross-site scripting vulnerability

Details

In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, a user with resource edit permissions can inject an XSS payload into the title of any post via the pagetitle parameter to connectors/index.php.

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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      },
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  "modified": "2025-04-22T18:43:50Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T02:43:14Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "MODX Revolution cross-site scripting vulnerability"
}

CVE-2017-9070 (GCVE-0-2017-9070)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-18 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:31

Summary

In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, a user with resource edit permissions can inject an XSS payload into the title of any post via the pagetitle parameter to connectors/index.php.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://citadelo.com/en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/13415	x_refsource_MISC

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-7HHG-XJ2H-5VQ9

CVE-2017-9070 (GCVE-0-2017-9070)

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