CVE-2017-10970 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 allows remote anonymous users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 allows remote anonymous users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php

Published Jul 6, 2017

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.64%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 allows remote anonymous users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.64% 0.00637

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00637

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.64% (0.00637)	48.65th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.64% (0.00637)	49.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.08% (0.00085)	36.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	0.08% (0.00085)	35.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00093)	38.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.66% (0.00663)	18.75th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.66% (0.00663)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038908
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/838
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038908		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/838		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 6, 2017

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Jul 6, 2017

Link CVE-2017-10970

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-10970

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2017-10970