Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-6537

Description

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was discovered in webpagetest 3.0. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (bgcolor) passed to the webpagetest-master/www/video/view.php URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

Webpagetest Project/Webpagetest
cpe:2.3:a:webpagetest_project:webpagetest:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

github.com/WPO-Foundation/webpagetest/issues/837nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96935nvd
github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2017-6537.mdnvd

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