CVE-2017-15717

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.029 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.91% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-79USprimaryCWE-79US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Sling≤ XSS Protection API Compat 1.1.0enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache Sling≤ XSS Protection API 1.0.4 to 1.0.18enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache Sling≤ XSS Protection API 2.0.0enisa_euvdEU
apache sling xss protection api≤ 1.0.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:sling_xss_protection_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache sling xss protection api1.0.4 → 1.0.18nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:sling_xss_protection_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache sling xss protection api= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:sling_xss_protection_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache sling xss protection api compat= 1.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:sling_xss_protection_api_compat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xss1.0.4 → 2.0.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.xss
Maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xss.compatall versionsosvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.xss.compat

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-7mfw-43c4-45mqCross-site Scripting in Apache Sling XSS Protection API2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-01-10modified 2026-06-17

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