Medium severity · published Jun 4, 2018
CVE-2017-16015
Forms is a library for easily creating HTML forms
6.1
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Forms is a library for easily creating HTML forms. Versions before 1.3.0 did not have proper html escaping. This means that if the application did not sanitize html on behalf of forms, use of forms may be vulnerable to cross site scripting
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FO
Forms · Forms Project
before 1.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16015
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16015
Patch
https://github.com/caolan/forms/commit/bc01e534a0ff863dedb2026a50bd03153bbc6a5d
Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/158
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