CVE-2012-6523

medium

Published 2013-01-31 · 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

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in w-CMS 2.01 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the p parameter in the getMenus function in codes/wcms.php; or the COMMENT parameter in (2) blog.php, (3) guestbook.php, or (4) forum.php in codes/. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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-18348 webapps php

th3.g4m3_0v3r · 2012-01-10

w-CMS 2.01 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
w-cms	w-cms	`2.01`

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.