CVE-2012-6563

medium

Published 2013-05-23 · 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

4.3

Description

engine/lib/access.php in Elgg before 1.8.5 does not properly clear cached access lists during plugin boot, which allows remote attackers to read private entities via unspecified vectors.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
elgg	elgg	`{"endIncluding":"1.8.4"}`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.0`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.1`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.2`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.3`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.4`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.5`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.6`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.7`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.8`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.9`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.10`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.11`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.12`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.13`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.14`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.15`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.16`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.17`
elgg	elgg	`1.7.18`
elgg	elgg	`1.8.0.1`
elgg	elgg	`1.8.1`
elgg	elgg	`1.8.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.