CVE-2017-12066

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in aggregate_graphs.php in Cacti before 1.1.16 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specially crafted HTTP Referer headers, related to the $cancel_url variable. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix (lack of the htmlspecialchars ENT_QUOTES flag) for CVE-2017-11163.

Affected products

cacti: through 1.1.15

References

https://cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.16
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/bd0e586f6f46d814930226f1516a194e7e72293e
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/877
https://cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.16
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/bd0e586f6f46d814930226f1516a194e7e72293e
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/877

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