CVE-2017-8898

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-05-11

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Invision Power Board (Invisioncommunity)

References

• http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt
• https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864
• https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248