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CVE-2017-8897

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.

Affected products

• Kaspersky Lab Invision Power Board: through 4.1.19.2

References

• http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt
• https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864
• https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248
• http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt
• https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864
• https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248

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