National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4616
Original release date:01/06/2012
Last revised:04/05/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML-Template-Pro module before 0.9507 for Perl allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via template parameters, related to improper handling of > (greater than) and < (less than) characters.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 51117
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 47184
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20111218 CVE for HTML-Template-Pro 0.9506 XSS
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://metacpan.org/diff/release/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9505/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9507
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-15482
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-15490
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-15439
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9507/Changes
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652587
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)