CVE-2017-14523
WonderCMS 2.3.1 is vulnerable to an HTTP Host header injection attack. It uses user-entered values to redirect pages. NOTE: the vendor…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 8.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
WonderCMS 2.3.1 is vulnerable to an HTTP Host header injection attack. It uses user-entered values to redirect pages. NOTE: the vendor reports that exploitation is unlikely because the attack can only come from a local machine or from the administrator as a self attack
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Wonder CMS 2.3.1 - 'Host' Header Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 43964webapps, phppublished 5 Feb 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 43964 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.0% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/01/host-header-injection-in-wonder-cms.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43964 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-6024 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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