CVE-2017-15717 — CVE-2017-15717

CVE-2017-15717

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1

EPSS exploitation probability: 0%

Published 2018-01-10T14:29:00.263 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:09.467

Summary

A flaw in the way URLs are escaped and encoded in the org.apache.sling.xss.impl.XSSAPIImpl#getValidHref and org.apache.sling.xss.impl.XSSFilterImpl#isValidHref allows special crafted URLs to pass as valid, although they carry XSS payloads. The affected versions are Apache Sling XSS Protection API 1.0.4 to 1.0.18, Apache Sling XSS Protection API Compat 1.1.0 and Apache Sling XSS Protection API 2.0.0.

Affected products

apache — sling_xss_protection_api

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References

NVD entry
CVE.org record

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