CVE-2012-2156

medium
Published 2012-04-11 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 Plume CMS 1.2.4 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the u_email parameter (aka Authors Email field) to manager/users.php, (2) the u_realname parameter (aka Authors Name field) to manager/users.php, or (3) the c_author parameter (aka Author field) in an ADD A COMMENT section.

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-18699 webapps php
Ivano Binetti ยท 2012-04-04

Plume CMS 1.2.4 - Multiple Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
plume-cmsplume_cms{"endIncluding":"1.2.4"}
plume-cmsplume_cms1.0.2
plume-cmsplume_cms1.0.3
plume-cmsplume_cms1.0.4
plume-cmsplume_cms1.0.5
plume-cmsplume_cms1.0.6
plume-cmsplume_cms1.1.3
plume-cmsplume_cms1.2
plume-cmsplume_cms1.2.1
plume-cmsplume_cms1.2.2
plume-cmsplume_cms1.2.3

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.