CVE-2017-5962: Netresearch Contexts Wurfl

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in contexts_wurfl (for TYPO3) before 0.4.2. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data in the "force_ua" HTTP GET parameter passed to the "/contexts_wurfl/Library/wurfl-dbapi-1.4.4.0/check_wurfl.php" URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Affected products

• Netresearch Contexts Wurfl: version 0.2.0 only; version 0.2.1 only; version 0.2.2 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.4.0 only; …

Published 2017-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.