CVE-2017-9548 — admin

admin.php in BigTree through 4.2.18 has a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by launching a Home Template Edit Page action and entering the Navigation Title of a page that is scheduled for futur

01What is this vulnerability?

admin.php in BigTree through 4.2.18 has a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by launching a Home Template Edit Page action and entering the Navigation Title of a page that is scheduled for future publication (aka a pending page change).

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: 2017-06-12T06:29:00.650
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/issues/296
• github.com — https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/issues/296