Lucee 5.4.2.17 Administrative Interface server.cfm cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Lucee 5.4.2.17. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file server.cfm of the component Administrative Interface. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-53880. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Lucee 5.4.2.17. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file server.cfm of the component Administrative Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Lucee 5.4.2.17 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts through administrative interface parameters. Attackers can craft specific payloads targeting admin pages like server.cfm and web.cfm to execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim's browser sessions.

The weakness was published by Yehia Elghaly as 51668. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-53880 since 12/13/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:server.cfm it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Lucee

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• 5.4.2.17

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