CVE-2012-1469

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74228

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74227

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74226

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74225

http://www.osvdb.org/80257

http://www.osvdb.org/80256

http://www.osvdb.org/80255

http://secunia.com/advisories/48464

http://secunia.com/advisories/48449

http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8431

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE-2.3.7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-09-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03077