CVE-2017-5961

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
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: yes
Published: 2017-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in ionize through 1.0.8. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the "path" HTTP GET parameter passed to the "ionize-master/themes/admin/javascript/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/codemirror/dialog.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

Ionizecms Ionize: through 1.0.8

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96196
https://github.com/ionize/ionize/issues/393
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96196
https://github.com/ionize/ionize/issues/393

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