CVE-2017-15646

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Webmin before 1.860 has XSS with resultant remote code execution. Under the 'Others/File Manager' menu, there is a 'Download from remote URL' option to download a file from a remote server. After setting up a malicious server, one can wait for a file download request and then send an XSS payload that will lead to Remote Code Execution, as demonstrated by an OS command in the value attribute of a name='cmd' input element.

Affected products

Webmin: through 1.850

References

http://www.webmin.com/changes.html
http://www.webmin.com/security.html
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3430
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/0c58892732ee7610a7abba5507614366d382c9c9
http://www.webmin.com/changes.html
http://www.webmin.com/security.html
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3430
https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/0c58892732ee7610a7abba5507614366d382c9c9

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