National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2957
Original release date:09/10/2010
Last revised:09/10/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Serendipity before 1.5.4, when "Remember me" logins are enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://blog.s9y.org/archives/223-Serendipity-1.5.4-released.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100831 Re: CVE request: serendipity < 1.5.4 xss
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100829 CVE request: serendipity < 1.5.4 xss
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_serendipity.html
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)