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CVE-2017-8898

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% 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 stored XSS in the Announcements, allowing privilege escalation from an Invision Power Board moderator to an admin. An attack uses the announce_content parameter in an index.php?/modcp/announcements/&action=create request. This is related to the "<> Source" option.

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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