{"id":"CVE-2017-8898","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-8898","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:35:03.314Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2017-05-11T17:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:27:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["invisioncommunity/invision power board"],"epss":{"score":0.0189,"percentile":0.79451,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.89%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8898","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."}