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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2012-5452

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Subrion CMS 2.2.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) multi_title parameter to blocks/add/; (2) cost, (3) days, or (4) title[en] parameter to plans/add/; (5) name or (6) title[en] parameter to fields/group/add/ in admin/manage/; or (7) f[accounts][fullname] or (8) f[accounts][username] parameter to advsearch/. NOTE: This might overlap CVE-2011-5211. NOTE: it was later reported that the f[accounts][fullname] and f[accounts][username] vectors might also affect 2.2.2.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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