What is CVE-2020-12718?

CVE-2020-12718 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Php-Fusion, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-12718?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Php-Fusion

CVE-2020-12718

In administration/comments.php in PHP-Fusion 9.03.50, an authenticated attacker can take advantage of a stored XSS vulnerability in the Preview Comment feature. The protection mechanism can be bypassed by using HTML event handlers such as ontoggle.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (47.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Php-fusion — versions 9.03.50
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-12718?: CVE-2020-12718 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Php-Fusion, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-12718?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.