CVE-2020-5842

medium

Description

Codoforum 4.8.3 allows XSS in the user registration page: via the username field to the index.php?u=/user/register URI. The payload is, for example, executed on the admin/index.php?page=users/manage page.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47876

https://medium.com/%40prasanthc41m/cve-2020-5842-stored-xss-vulnerability-in-codoforum-4-8-3-b2e1133c6a91

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-07

Updated: 2026-06-17

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