CVE-2017-8780

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8780 describes a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in GeniXCMS 1.0.2. An authenticated administrator can trigger this XSS by publishing a comment containing a malformed P element. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.8), the attack requires high privileges and user interaction, leading to low impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:genixcms:genixcms:1.0.2:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

2.7

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.60%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

45.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 4,931 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: genix/cmsFixed in: 1.1.0

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-5hf2-7xf4-w3j6medium

GeniXCMS Cross-site Scripting

May 17, 2022

References

github.com / semplon/GeniXCMS/issues/74

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