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CVE-2017-16043

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-80

Description

Shout is an IRC client. Because the `/topic` command in messages is unescaped, attackers have the ability to inject HTML scripts that will run in the victim's browser. Affects shout >=0.44.0 <=0.49.3.

Affected products

• HackerOne shout node module: from 0.44.0 before 0.50.0 — fixed in 0.50.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HackerOne shout node module 0.50.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/344
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/322
• https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/344
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/322

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