Medium
Security advisory
In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, an attacker is able to trigger Reflected XSS by injecting payloads into several fields on the setup page, as demonstrated by the database_type parameter.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9068
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, an attacker is able to trigger Reflected XSS by injecting payloads into several fields on the setup page, as demonstrated by the database_type parameter.
osv:CVE-2017-9068
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:11.420117117Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://citadelo.com/en/2017/04/modx-revolution-cms/",
"https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/13424"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381391,
"published_at": "2017-05-18T16:29:00.19+00:00"
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