VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5164

medium
Published 2012-09-26 · 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
4.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Fork CMS before 3.2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the term parameter to (1) autocomplete.php, (2) search/ajax/autosuggest.php, (3) livesuggest.php, or (4) save.php in frontend/modules/search/ajax.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
fork-cmsfork_cms{"endIncluding":"3.2.6"}
fork-cmsfork_cms2.0.1
fork-cmsfork_cms2.0.2
fork-cmsfork_cms2.1.0
fork-cmsfork_cms2.2.0
fork-cmsfork_cms2.3.0
fork-cmsfork_cms2.3.1
fork-cmsfork_cms2.4.0
fork-cmsfork_cms2.4.1
fork-cmsfork_cms2.5.1
fork-cmsfork_cms2.5.2
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.0
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.1
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.2
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.3
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.4
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.5
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.6
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.7
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.8
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.9
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.10
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.11
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.12
fork-cmsfork_cms2.6.13
fork-cmsfork_cms3.0.0
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.0
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.1
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.2
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.3
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.4
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.5
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.6
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.7
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.8
fork-cmsfork_cms3.1.9
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.0
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.1
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.2
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.3
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.4
fork-cmsfork_cms3.2.5

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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