VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6622

medium
Published 2014-01-16 · 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 fs-admin/fs-admin.php in the ForumPress WP Forum Server plugin before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) groupid parameter in an editgroup action or (2) usergroup_id parameter in an edit_usergroup 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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37195 webapps php verified
Heine Pedersen · 2012-05-15

WordPress Plugin WP Forum Server 1.7.3 - '/fs-admin/fs-admin.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vasthtmlforumpress{"endIncluding":"1.7.4"}
vasthtmlforumpress1.0
vasthtmlforumpress1.1
vasthtmlforumpress1.2
vasthtmlforumpress1.3
vasthtmlforumpress1.4
vasthtmlforumpress1.5
vasthtmlforumpress1.5.1
vasthtmlforumpress1.5.2
vasthtmlforumpress1.6
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.2
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.3
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.4
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.5
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.6
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.7
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.8
vasthtmlforumpress1.6.9
vasthtmlforumpress1.7
vasthtmlforumpress1.7.1
vasthtmlforumpress1.7.2
vasthtmlforumpress1.7.3

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.