What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7944

• 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: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

XOOPS Core 2.5.8.1 has XSS due to unescaped HTML output of an Install DB failure error message in page_dbsettings.php.

Affected products

• Xoops: 2.5.8.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97978
• https://tsublogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/xoops-core-2-5-8-1-install-db-cross-site-scripting/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97978
• https://tsublogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/xoops-core-2-5-8-1-install-db-cross-site-scripting/

Get alerted when CVE-2017-7944 or the next vulnerability affects your stack