CVE-2017-7992 — Heartland Payment Systems Payment Gateway PHP SDK hps/heartland-php v2

Heartland Payment Systems Payment Gateway PHP SDK hps/heartland-php v2.8.17 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in examples/consumer-authentication/cruise.php via the URI, as demonstrated by the cavv parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

Heartland Payment Systems Payment Gateway PHP SDK hps/heartland-php v2.8.17 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in examples/consumer-authentication/cruise.php via the URI, as demonstrated by the cavv parameter.

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2017-04-21T14:59:00.540
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/hps/heartland-php/issues/28
• github.com — https://github.com/hps/heartland-php/issues/28