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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15092

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

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CVE-2017-15092
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1 Nov 2026, 04:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-15092

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Jan 2018, 15:29 UTC

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

osv:CVE-2017-15092
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.952159Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430803,
  "published_at": "2018-01-23T15:29:00.323+00:00"
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