CVE-2012-2436

medium

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an arbitrary parameter in a move or (2) minimize action to admin/admin_index.php; (3) the karma_username parameter to module.php in the karma module; (4) q_1_low, (5) q_1_high, (6) q_2_low, or (7) q_2_high parameter in a configure action to module.php in the captcha module; or (8) the edit parameter to module.php in the admin_language module.

References

https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75834

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75764

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53662

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53625

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-18/

http://secunia.com/advisories/49257

http://secunia.com/advisories/45431

http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2452

http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2441

http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2440

http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg/trunk/modules/admin_language/admin_language_main.php?r1=2442&r2=2441&pathrev=2442

http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-05-27

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: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0371