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CVE-2017-14498

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

SilverStripe CMS before 3.6.1 has XSS via an SVG document that is mishandled by (1) the Insert Media option in the content editor or (2) an admin/assets/add pathname, as demonstrated by the admin/pages/edit/EditorToolbar/MediaForm/field/AssetUploadField/upload URI, aka issue SS-2017-017.

Affected products

• Silverstripe: through 3.6.0

References

• http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2017/09/14/2
• https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/3/changelogs/3.6.1
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/commit/25b77a2ff8deabe8e8894002b9a5647eaec27b0a
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer/commit/c25478bef75cc5482852e80a1fa6f1f0e6460e39
• http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2017/09/14/2
• https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/3/changelogs/3.6.1
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/commit/25b77a2ff8deabe8e8894002b9a5647eaec27b0a
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer/commit/c25478bef75cc5482852e80a1fa6f1f0e6460e39

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