VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2331

medium
Published 2012-08-13 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in serendipity/serendipity_admin_image_selector.php in Serendipity before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the serendipity[textarea] parameter. NOTE: this issue might be resultant from cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18884 webapps php verified
Stefan Schurtz · 2012-05-08

S9Y Serendipity 1.6 - 'Backend' Cross-Site Scripting / SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
s9yserendipity{"endIncluding":"1.6"}
s9yserendipity0.3
s9yserendipity0.4
s9yserendipity0.7
s9yserendipity0.7.1
s9yserendipity0.8
s9yserendipity0.8.1
s9yserendipity0.8.2
s9yserendipity0.8.3
s9yserendipity0.8.4
s9yserendipity0.8.5
s9yserendipity0.9
s9yserendipity0.9.1
s9yserendipity1.0
s9yserendipity1.0.1
s9yserendipity1.0.2
s9yserendipity1.0.3
s9yserendipity1.0.4
s9yserendipity1.1
s9yserendipity1.1.1
s9yserendipity1.1.2
s9yserendipity1.1.3
s9yserendipity1.1.4
s9yserendipity1.2
s9yserendipity1.2.1
s9yserendipity1.3
s9yserendipity1.3.1
s9yserendipity1.4
s9yserendipity1.4.1
s9yserendipity1.5.1
s9yserendipity1.5.2
s9yserendipity1.5.3
s9yserendipity1.5.4
s9yserendipity1.5.5
s9yserendipity1.6.1

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.