CVE-2017-8098 — e107 2

e107 2.1.4 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery in plugin-installing, meta-changing, and settings-changing. A malicious web page can use forged requests to make e107 download and install a plug-in provided by the attacker.

01What is this vulnerability?

e107 2.1.4 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery in plugin-installing, meta-changing, and settings-changing. A malicious web page can use forged requests to make e107 download and install a plug-in provided by the attacker.

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2017-04-24T18:59:00.663
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/40
• github.com — https://github.com/e107inc/e107/commit/7a3e3d9fc7e05ce6941b9af1c14010bf2141f1a5
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/40
• github.com — https://github.com/e107inc/e107/commit/7a3e3d9fc7e05ce6941b9af1c14010bf2141f1a5