Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before
    3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger
    a Smarty exception. (CVE-2012-4437)

An XSS vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception (CVE-2012-4437).

Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by '<script language=php>' in a template (CVE-2014-8350).

Update to latest upstream, plus fix for CVE-2012-4437.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
433002	SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-9gqj-ppv2-f2hq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
433002	SCA: security update for smarty/smarty (GHSA-9gqj-ppv2-f2hq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
79408	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php-smarty (MDVSA-2014:221)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
62297	Fedora 18 : php-Smarty-3.1.11-1.fc18 (2012-14578)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2012-4437

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Tenable Plugins

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