CVE-2017-15279

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Umbraco CMS before 7.7.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "page name" (aka nodename) parameter during the creation of a new page, related to Umbraco.Web.UI/umbraco/dialogs/Publish.aspx.cs and Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/dialogs/notifications.aspx.cs.

Affected products

Umbraco-CMS: through 7.7.2

References

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-10497
https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/fe2b86b681455ac975b294652064b2718d4e2ba2
http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-10497
https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/fe2b86b681455ac975b294652064b2718d4e2ba2

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