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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2436

Original release date:05/27/2012

Last revised:08/19/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an arbitrary parameter in a move or (2) minimize action to admin/admin_index.php; (3) the karma_username parameter to module.php in the karma module; (4) q_1_low, (5) q_1_high, (6) q_2_low, or (7) q_2_high parameter in a configure action to module.php in the captcha module; or (8) the edit parameter to module.php in the admin_language module.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

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: MISC

Name: https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089

Hyperlink:https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089

External Source: XF

Name: pliggcms-adminindex-xss(75834)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75834

External Source: XF

Name: pliggcms-multiple1-xss(75764)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75764

External Source: BID

Name: 53662

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53662