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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-5553

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plugins/markdown_plugin/_markdown.plugin.php in b2evolution before 6.8.5 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URL.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-5553

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Jan 2017, 07:59 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plugins/markdown_plugin/_markdown.plugin.php in b2evolution before 6.8.5 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URL.

osv:CVE-2017-5553
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5553",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-5553",
    "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plugins/markdown_plugin/_markdown.plugin.php in b2evolution before 6.8.5 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URL.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5553",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "551702a31751ac1f98ea89e1ef62794294f6f3a2"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ce5b36e44b714b18b0bcd34c6db0187b8d13bab8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                      {
                        "last_affected": "6.8.4"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                    "range": [
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "6.8.3",
            "6.8.2",
            "6.8.1",
            "6.8.0-beta",
            "6.7.7",
            "6.7.6",
            "6.7.5",
            "6.6.8",
            "6.6.7",
            "6.7.0-alpha",
            "6.6.6",
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            "6.6.4",
            "6.6.1",
            "6.6.0",
            "6.5.0",
            "6.4.4-beta",
            "6.4.3-beta",
            "6.4.2-beta",
            "6.1.2-alpha",
            "6.0.0-alpha.1",
            "6.0.0-alpha",
            "v5.2.0-stable"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5553.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:50.067412057Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/b2evolution/b2evolution/commit/ce5b36e44b714b18b0bcd34c6db0187b8d13bab8"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-5553",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379759,
  "published_at": "2017-01-23T07:59:00.58+00:00"
}