CVE-2012-0873

medium

Published 2012-02-23 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Boonex Dolphin before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) explain parameter to explanation.php or the (2) photos_only, (3) online_only, or (4) mode parameters to viewFriends.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36854 webapps php verified

Aung Khant · 2012-02-21

Dolphin 7.0.x - 'explanation.php?explain' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-36853 webapps php verified

Aung Khant · 2012-02-21

Dolphin 7.0.x - 'viewFriends.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
boonex	dolphin	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.7"}`
boonex	dolphin	`5.1`
boonex	dolphin	`5.2`
boonex	dolphin	`6.1.2`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.0`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.1`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.2`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.3`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.4`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.5`
boonex	dolphin	`7.0.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.