CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-9781.md

### [CVE-2017-9781](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9781)
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### Description

A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Check_MK versions 1.4.0x prior to 1.4.0p6, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via the _username parameter when attempting authentication to webapi.py, which is returned unencoded with content type text/html.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21

#### Github
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