CVE-2014-8488

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator panel in Yourls 1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL that is processed by the Shorten functionality.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21, 22
yourls/yourls: 1.7

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156526.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156564.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156596.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/111
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156526.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156564.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156596.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/111

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