CVE-2020-12438

medium

Description

An XSS vulnerability exists in the banners.php page of PHP-Fusion 9.03.50. This can be exploited because the only security measure used against XSS is the stripping of SCRIPT tags. A malicious actor can use HTML event handlers to run JavaScript instead of using SCRIPT tags.

References

https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/issues/2307

https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/commit/c36006f900d855f1173f81cea1a774295049f4d8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-28

Updated: 2026-06-17

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00206