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Microsoft SharePoint: CVE-2017-11876: Microsoft Project Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 15, 2017
Added
May 15, 2023
Modified
Sep 9, 2025

Description

Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 allow an attacker to use cross-site forgery to read content that they are not authorized to read, use the victim's identity to take actions on the web application on behalf of the victim, such as change permissions and delete content, and inject malicious content in the browser of the victim, aka "Microsoft Project Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".

Solution

microsoft-sharepoint-sharepoint_2016-kb4011244
Title
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