CVE-2013-2643

medium

Published 2014-03-18 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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 Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.8.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) xss parameter in an allow action to rss.php, (2) msg parameter to end-user/errdoc.php, (3) h parameter to end-user/ftp_redirect.php, or (4) threat parameter to the Blocked component.

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-24932 webapps linux

SEC Consult · 2013-04-08

Sophos Web Protection Appliance 3.7.8.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

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.