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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2017-8760 EUVD-2017-17706GHSA-w5wv-wm67-g67m

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. There is XSS in courier/1000@/index.html with the auth_params paramet…

Published May 5, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. There is XSS in courier/1000@/index.html with the auth_params parameter. The device tries to use internal WAF filters to stop specific XSS Vulnerabilities. However, these can be bypassed by using some modifications to the payloads, e.g., URL encoding.

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