{"cve":"CVE-2017-8897","nvd":{"published":"2017-05-11T17:29:00.160","modified":"2026-06-17T01:27:09.930","status":"Modified","description":"Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":6.1},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt","https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864","https://twitter.com/sxcurity/status/862284967715381248","http://zeroday.insecurity.zone/exploits/ipb_owned.txt","https://twitter.com/insecurity/status/862154908895780864"],"products":["invisioncommunity:invision_power_board"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:42:36.429588156+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2017-8897","score":0.01159,"percentile":0.67119,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}