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CVE-2017-7251 — A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in pi-engine/pi 2

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in pi-engine/pi 2.5.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (preview) passed to the "pi-develop/www/script/editor/markitup/preview/markdown.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary

CVSS
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.23% (top 53.80%)
CWE
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Published
2017-03-23T22:59:00.307
Last modified
2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in pi-engine/pi 2.5.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (preview) passed to the "pi-develop/www/script/editor/markitup/preview/markdown.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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