XSS in Pkp Open Journal Systems
CVE-2012-1469
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allow remote attackers and remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) editor or (2) callback parameters to lib/pkp/lib/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/ibrowser.php in the iBrowser plugin, (3) authors[][url] parameter to index.php, or (4) Bio Statement or (5) Abstract of Submission fields to the stripUnsafeHtml function in lib/pkp/classes/core/String.inc.php.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74228 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74225 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/48449 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE-2.3.7
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74227 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/80257 (vdb-entry)
- www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23079 (Exploit)
- www.osvdb.org/80255 (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0102.html (mailing-list, Exploit)