CVE-2012-6659

medium
Published 2014-09-19 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the admin interface in Phorum before 5.2.19 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phorumphorum{"endIncluding":"5.2.18"}
phorumphorum5.2
phorumphorum5.2.1
phorumphorum5.2.2
phorumphorum5.2.3
phorumphorum5.2.4
phorumphorum5.2.5
phorumphorum5.2.6
phorumphorum5.2.7
phorumphorum5.2.8
phorumphorum5.2.9
phorumphorum5.2.10
phorumphorum5.2.11
phorumphorum5.2.12
phorumphorum5.2.13
phorumphorum5.2.14
phorumphorum5.2.15
phorumphorum5.2.16

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.