CVE-2017-9070 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-05-18

Score: 5.4 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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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:modx:modx_revolution:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2017-18009	MODX Revolution cross-site scripting vulnerability
Github GHSA	GHSA-7hhg-xj2h-5vq9	MODX Revolution cross-site scripting vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00217.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Modx Modx Revolution

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-18T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:31:17.136Z

Reserved: 2017-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9070

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-18T16:29:00.250

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

Link: CVE-2017-9070

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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