IBM Connections Engagement Center is prone to cross-site scripting and an information disclosure vulnerabilities.
An attacker may leverage these issues to obtain potentially sensitive information and to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.
IBM Connections Engagement Center 6.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
Information
CVE-2017-1683
Exploit
An attacker can exploit these issues by enticing an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI or by using readily available tools.
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