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CVE-2017-6909

• 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: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in Shimmie <= 2.5.1. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (log) passed to the "shimmie2-master/ext/chatbox/history/index.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

• Shishnet Shimmie: through 2.5.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96932
• https://github.com/shish/shimmie2/issues/597
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96932
• https://github.com/shish/shimmie2/issues/597

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