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CVE-2017-15538

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Stored XSS vulnerability in the Media Objects component of ILIAS before 5.1.21 and 5.2.x before 5.2.9 allows an authenticated user to inject JavaScript to gain administrator privileges, related to the setParameter function in Services/MediaObjects/classes/class.ilMediaItem.php.

Affected products

• ILIAS: through 5.1.21; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.9 — fixed in 5.2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ILIAS 5.2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/17/3
• https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/commit/b2a4660afec1e87d41c83c8e381f549bc6dfc70f
• https://lists.ilias.de/pipermail/ilias-admins/2017-October/000053.html
• https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75377_35.html
• https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75378_1719.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/17/3
• https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/commit/b2a4660afec1e87d41c83c8e381f549bc6dfc70f
• https://lists.ilias.de/pipermail/ilias-admins/2017-October/000053.html
• https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75377_35.html
• https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75378_1719.html

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