What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7320

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

setup/controllers/language.php in MODX Revolution 2.5.4-pl and earlier does not properly constrain the language parameter, which allows remote attackers to conduct Cookie-Bombing attacks and cause a denial of service (cookie quota exhaustion), or conduct HTTP Response Splitting attacks with resultant XSS, via an invalid parameter value.

Affected products

• Modx Revolution: through 2.5.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97228
• https://mazinahmed.net/services/public-reports/ModX%20-%20Responsible%20Disclosure%20-%20January%202017.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97228
• https://mazinahmed.net/services/public-reports/ModX%20-%20Responsible%20Disclosure%20-%20January%202017.pdf

Get alerted when CVE-2017-7320 or the next vulnerability affects your stack