An issue was discovered in SmartFoxServer 2.17.0. An attacker can execute arbitrary Python code, and bypass the javashell.py protection mechanism, by creating /config/ConsoleModuleUnlock.txt and editing /config/admin/admintool.xml to enable the Console module.

An issue was discovered in SmartFoxServer 2.17.0. Cleartext password disclosure can occur via /config/server.xml.

An XSS issue was discovered in SmartFoxServer 2.17.0. Input passed to the AdminTool console is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.