CVE-2017-9836

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9836 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Piwigo 2.9.1, allowing authenticated administrators to inject malicious web scripts through the virtual_name parameter when creating a virtual album. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) requires high privileges and user interaction, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		2.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:piwigo:piwigo:2.9.1:::::::*

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

44.9%

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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

github.com / Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/716

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