CVE-2017-8898 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2017-8898

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

invision power board
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 11th, 2017
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.