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CVE-2017-9070

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9070 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting MODX Revolution versions prior to 2.5.7. A low-privileged user with resource edit permissions can inject an XSS payload into the pagetitle parameter, leading to client-side script execution. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating low attack complexity and partial impact on confidentiality and integrity, but no impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:modx:modx_revolution:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 15,225 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: modx/revolutionFixed in: 2.5.7
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-7hhg-xj2h-5vq9medium

MODX Revolution cross-site scripting vulnerability

May 17, 2022

References

citadelo.com / en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / modxcms/revolution/pull/13415
PatchVendor Advisory