CVE-2017-6485 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in php-calendar before 2017-03-03. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (errorMsg) passed to the "php-calendar-master/error.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Published: 2017-03-05

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:php-calendar:php-calendar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-15541	A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in php-calendar before 2017-03-03. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (errorMsg) passed to the "php-calendar-master/error.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00301.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/jasonjoh/php-calendar/issues/4

History

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Subscriptions

Php-calendar Php-calendar

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-05T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:19.073Z

Reserved: 2017-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6485

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-05T20:59:00.417

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-6485

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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