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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2017-16907 json

In Horde Groupware 5.2.19 and 5.2.21, there is XSS via the Color field in a Create Task List action.

published 2017-11-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-8077

cvss
5.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Horde Groupware 5.2.19 and 5.2.21, there is XSS via the Color field in a Create Task List action.

Patch / fix

  • php-horde Debian 12 5.2.18+debian0-1
  • php-horde-core Debian 12 2.31.3+debian0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16907

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-16907 updated

php-horde-horde: Multiple vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • code610.blogspot.com http://code610.blogspot.com/2017/11/rce-via-xss-horde-5219.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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