CVE-2017-8897: Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board

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

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has pre-auth reflected XSS in the IPS UTF8 Converter v1.1.18: admin/convertutf8/index.php?controller= is the attack vector. This UTF8 Converter vulnerability can easily be used to make a malicious announcement affecting any Invision Power Board user who views the announcement.

Affected products

• Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board: up to and including 4.1.19.2

Published 2017-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.