VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5099

medium
Published 2012-09-23 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in list.php in PHPB2B 4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the q parameter in a search action.

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-36484 webapps php verified
H4ckCity Security Team · 2011-01-01

PHPB2B 4.1 - 'q' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpb2bphpb2b{"endIncluding":"4.1"}
phpb2bphpb2b1.0
phpb2bphpb2b2.0
phpb2bphpb2b3.0
phpb2bphpb2b3.1
phpb2bphpb2b3.2
phpb2bphpb2b3.3
phpb2bphpb2b3.4
phpb2bphpb2b4.0

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.