National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4267
Original release date:08/13/2012
Last revised:08/14/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in user/register in Sockso 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.
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: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/pull/99/files
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/commit/fe2d895ea8eb8b8ccad5a3319f472e45d6ba5136
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/issues/93
External Source: EXPLOIT-DB
Name: 18868
External Source: MISC
Name: http://smwyg.com/blog/#sockso-persistant-xss-attack
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 49148
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)