Medium
Security advisory
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in ATutor before 2.2.3. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of data (url in /mods/_standard/rss_feeds/edit_feed.php). An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14981
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in ATutor before 2.2.3. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of data (url in /mods/_standard/rss_feeds/edit_feed.php). An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
osv:CVE-2017-14981
Complete source record
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