# CVE-2017-8569: Cross-site scripting in Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016

> An attacker can exploit improper sanitization in SharePoint Server to achieve privilege escalation via cross-site scripting.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Jul 2017
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hq49-pqh6-q532

## What is CVE-2017-8569?

CVE-2017-8569 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Sharepoint Server, published on 11 Jul 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Microsoft SharePoint Server allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way that it sanitizes a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server, aka "SharePoint Server XSS Vulnerability".

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8569?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Microsoft Sharepoint Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-8569?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8569 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-8569 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8569 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Sharepoint Server

- [CVE-2026-50522](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-50522/): Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-58644](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-58644/): Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-20963](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20963/): Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-53770](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53770/): Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-29357](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29357/): Microsoft SharePoint Server Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-8569 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-8569 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Sharepoint Server, published on 11 Jul 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8569 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Sharepoint Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8569/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8569/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8569
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8569
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8569

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