CVE-2017-15538
medium
CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.4
Description
Stored XSS vulnerability in the Media Objects component of ILIAS before 5.1.21 and 5.2.x before 5.2.9 allows an authenticated user to inject JavaScript to gain administrator privileges, related to the setParameter function in Services/MediaObjects/classes/class.ilMediaItem.php.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ilias | ilias | {"endIncluding":"5.1.21"} | |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/17/3
- https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/commit/b2a4660afec1e87d41c83c8e381f549bc6dfc70f
- https://lists.ilias.de/pipermail/ilias-admins/2017-October/000053.html
- https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75377_35.html
- https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75378_1719.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/17/3
- https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/commit/b2a4660afec1e87d41c83c8e381f549bc6dfc70f
- https://lists.ilias.de/pipermail/ilias-admins/2017-October/000053.html
- https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75377_35.html
- https://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_pg_75378_1719.html
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.