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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-7204

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in imdbphp 5.1.1. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (name) passed to the "imdbphp-master/demo/search.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:57 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-7204

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Mar 2017, 06:59 UTC

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in imdbphp 5.1.1. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (name) passed to the "imdbphp-master/demo/search.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

osv:CVE-2017-7204
Complete source record
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