CVE-2017-20188 (GCVE-0-2017-20188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-02 14:31
Modified
2025-06-03 14:45
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting
Summary
A vulnerability has been found in Zimbra zm-ajax up to 8.8.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function XFormItem.prototype.setError of the file WebRoot/js/ajax/dwt/xforms/XFormItem.js. The manipulation of the argument message leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 8.8.2 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 8d039d6efe80780adc40c6f670c06d21de272105. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-249421 was assigned to this vulnerability.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Zimbra zm-ajax Version: 8.8.0
Version: 8.8.1
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