CVE-2017-8898

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.559

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-8897,CVE-2017-8898,CVE-2017-8899 are affected in Invision Power Board 4.1.19.2	Windows

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234