A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-15092

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93

Published

May 13, 2022 1:37 AM

Last Modified

May 13, 2022 1:37 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 11, 2025 6:35 AM

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