$ cve CVE-2012-2436 JSON

CVE-2012-2436 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.5% (pctl 84)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	2.5% — more likely to be exploited than 84% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2012-05-27
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
pligg	pligg cms

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Pligg CMS 1.x - 'module.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities	2012-05-23

References

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