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CVE-2017-8920

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

irc.cgi in CGI:IRC before 0.5.12 reflects user-supplied input from the R parameter without proper output encoding, aka XSS.

Affected products

• Cgiirc Cgi:Irc: through 0.5.11

References

• http://cgiirc.org/
• https://github.com/dgl/cgiirc/commit/46dd48442204207b52c16065ad67d294194afd8d
• http://cgiirc.org/
• https://github.com/dgl/cgiirc/commit/46dd48442204207b52c16065ad67d294194afd8d

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