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CVE-2017-14231

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: yes
• Published: 2017-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

GeniXCMS before 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (account blockage) by leveraging the mishandling of certain username substring relationships, such as the admin<script> username versus the admin username, related to register.php, User.class.php, and Type.class.php.

Affected products

• Genixcms: through 1.0.2

References

• https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/issues/78
• https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/releases/tag/v1.1.0
• https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/issues/78
• https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/releases/tag/v1.1.0

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