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CVE-2020-17453

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 26.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-04-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

WSO2 Management Console through 5.10 allows XSS via the carbon/admin/login.jsp msgId parameter.

Affected products

• WSO2 API Manager: through 3.2.0
• WSO2 API Manager Analytics: 2.2.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0
• WSO2 Api Microgateway: 2.2.0
• WSO2 Enterprise Integrator: through 6.6.0
• WSO2 Identity Server: through 5.10.0
• WSO2 Identity Server Analytics: 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.5.0, 5.6.0
• WSO2 Identity Server As Key Manager: 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 5.7.0, 5.9.0, 5.10.0
• WSO2 Micro Integrator: 1.0.0

References

• https://github.com/JHHAX/CVE-2020-17453-PoC
• https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-1132/
• https://twitter.com/JacksonHHax/status/1374681422678519813
• https://github.com/JHHAX/CVE-2020-17453-PoC
• https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-1132/
• https://twitter.com/JacksonHHax/status/1374681422678519813

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