Medium
Security advisory
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (benchmark) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/view.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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-6533
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (benchmark) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/view.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
osv:CVE-2017-6533
Complete source record
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