CVE-2017-6540
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The...
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Record
CVE-2017-6540- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Record
CVE-2017-6540- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-15596 No score
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Record
EUVD-2017-15596- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-cr72-99h3-w6vr
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The...
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Record
GHSA-cr72-99h3-w6vr- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (configs) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/benchmarks/compare.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.
- Record
CVE-2017-6540- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-6540 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Webpagetest Project Webpagetest, published March 8, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.64%, the 50th percentile. No source names a fixed version.