CVE-2011-4340

medium

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the profile parameter to extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php, as demonstrated via requests to (a) the default URI, (b) about/, or (c) drafts/; or (2) the filter parameter in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php, as demonstrated via requests to (d) symphony/publish/comments or (e) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71106

http://www.osvdb.org/76883

http://www.osvdb.org/76882

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/9

http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/

http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/

http://secunia.com/advisories/46663

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Nov/8

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/106493/symphonycms-sqlxss.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-02-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01713