CVE-2017-16908

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-11-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Horde Groupware 5.2.19, there is XSS via the Name field during creation of a new Resource. This can be leveraged for remote code execution after compromising an administrator account, because the CVE-2015-7984 CSRF protection mechanism can then be bypassed.

Affected products

Horde Groupware: 5.2.19

References

http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/11/rce-via-xss-horde-5219.html
https://github.com/horde/kronolith/commit/39f740068ad21618f6f70b6e37855c61cadbd716
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00048.html
http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/11/rce-via-xss-horde-5219.html
https://github.com/horde/kronolith/commit/39f740068ad21618f6f70b6e37855c61cadbd716
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00048.html

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