CVE-2017-18195
An issue was discovered in tools/conversations/view_ajax.php in Concrete5 before 8.3.0. An unauthenticated user can enumerate comments…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 11.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An issue was discovered in tools/conversations/view_ajax.php in Concrete5 before 8.3.0. An unauthenticated user can enumerate comments from all blog posts by POSTing requests to /index.php/tools/required/conversations/view_ajax with incremental 'cnvID' integers.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Concrete5 CMS < 8.3.0 - Username / Comments Enumeration (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44194webapps, phppublished 27 Feb 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44194 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.1% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- https://github.com/r3naissance/NSE/blob/master/http-vuln-cve2017-18195.nse (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5/pull/6008/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 44194 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5/releases/tag/8.3.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2017-9329 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-18195)Record last updated .