CVE-2012-3836

medium
Published 2012-07-03 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 Baby Gekko before 1.2.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) groupname parameter in a savecategory in the users module; (2) virtual_filename, (3) branch, (4) contact_person, (5) street, (6) city, (7) province, (8) postal, (9) country, (10) tollfree, (11) phone, (12) fax, or (13) mobile parameter in a saveitem action in the contacts module; (14) title parameter in a savecategory action in the menus module; (15) firstname or (16) lastname in a saveitem action in the users module; (17) meta_key or (18) meta_description in a saveitem action in the blog module; or (19) the PATH_INFO to admin/index.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-18827 webapps php verified
LiquidWorm ยท 2012-05-03

Baby Gekko CMS 1.1.5c - Multiple Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
babygekkobaby_gekko{"endIncluding":"1.1.5"}
babygekkobaby_gekko0.90
babygekkobaby_gekko0.91
babygekkobaby_gekko0.98
babygekkobaby_gekko0.99
babygekkobaby_gekko1.0.0
babygekkobaby_gekko1.0.1
babygekkobaby_gekko1.1.0
babygekkobaby_gekko1.1.1
babygekkobaby_gekko1.1.2
babygekkobaby_gekko1.1.3
babygekkobaby_gekko1.1.4

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.