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CVE-2017-15872

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

phpwcms 1.8.9 has XSS in include/inc_tmpl/admin.edituser.tmpl.php and include/inc_tmpl/admin.newuser.tmpl.php via the username (aka new_login) field.

Affected products

• slackero phpwcms: 1.8.9

References

• https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/commit/62c7c4a7a7de5effa0a82c89e77e53795a82e11d
• https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/commit/90ee94a474b37919161f8112f9e36c53ad70492f
• https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/commit/62c7c4a7a7de5effa0a82c89e77e53795a82e11d
• https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/commit/90ee94a474b37919161f8112f9e36c53ad70492f

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