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CVE-2017-5962

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in contexts_wurfl (for TYPO3) before 0.4.2. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the "force_ua" HTTP GET parameter passed to the "/contexts_wurfl/Library/wurfl-dbapi-1.4.4.0/check_wurfl.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

• Netresearch Contexts Wurfl: 0.2.0-alpha, 0.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2-alpha, 0.3.0-alpha, 0.3.1-alpha, 0.4.0-alpha (+1)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96158
• https://forge.typo3.org/issues/79326
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96158
• https://forge.typo3.org/issues/79326

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