CVE-2017-6491

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
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: yes
Published: 2017-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in EPESI 1.8.1.1. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (tooltip_id, callback, args, cid) passed to the EPESI-master/modules/Utils/Tooltip/req.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

Epesi: 1.8.1.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96955
https://github.com/Telaxus/EPESI/issues/168
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96955
https://github.com/Telaxus/EPESI/issues/168

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