Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-8897

Title: Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-8897.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date May 11, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-8897: Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.

Impacted Vendors

invisioncommunity 1

invision_power_services 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns