National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5164
Original release date:09/26/2012
Last revised:01/19/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Fork CMS before 3.2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the term parameter to (1) autocomplete.php, (2) search/ajax/autosuggest.php, (3) livesuggest.php, or (4) save.php in frontend/modules/search/ajax.
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/forkcms/forkcms/commit/641e27bf1e9a7e320d6856399a7c274934bb351e
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: MISC
Name: https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/pull/247
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/03e8f5b53f193a87116b3875eec39769d5c07114
External Source: XF
Name: fork-multiple-xss(78957)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-cms-3-2-7-released
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)