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CVE-2017-7296

• 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: 2017-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in Contiki Operating System 3.0. A Persistent XSS vulnerability is present in the MQTT/IBM Cloud Config page (aka mqtt.html) of cc26xx-web-demo. The cc26xx-web-demo features a webserver that runs on a constrained device. That particular page allows a user to remotely configure that device's operation by sending HTTP POST requests. The vulnerability consists of improper input sanitisation of the text fields on the MQTT/IBM Cloud config page, allowing for JavaScript code injection.

Affected products

• Contiki-Os Contiki: 3.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98790
• https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98790
• https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e

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