{"id":"CVE-2017-5962","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5962","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:19:42.311Z","title":"The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the \"force_ua\" HTTP GET parameter passed to the \"/contexts_wurfl/Library/wurfl-dbapi-1.4.4.0/check_wurfl.php\" URL.","description":"An issue was discovered in contexts_wurfl (for TYPO3) before 0.4.2. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the \"force_ua\" HTTP GET parameter passed to the \"/contexts_wurfl/Library/wurfl-dbapi-1.4.4.0/check_wurfl.php\" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.","published":"2017-02-12T04:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:21:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["netresearch/contexts wurfl"],"epss":{"score":0.00761,"percentile":0.55103,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96158","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://forge.typo3.org/issues/79326","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96158","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://forge.typo3.org/issues/79326","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5962","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}