CVE-2017-8760: Accellion File Transfer Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. There is XSS in courier/1000@/index.html with the auth_params parameter. The device tries to use internal WAF filters to stop specific XSS Vulnerabilities. However, these can be bypassed by using some modifications to the payloads, e.g., URL encoding.

Affected products

• Accellion File Transfer Appliance: up to and including 9_12_40

Published 2017-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.