VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5314

medium
Published 2013-08-19 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in serendipity_admin_image_selector.php in Serendipity 1.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the serendipity[htmltarget] parameter.

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-38642 webapps php verified
Omar Kurt · 2013-07-12

S9Y Serendipity 1.6.2 - 'serendipity_admin_image_selector.php' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
s9yserendipity{"endIncluding":"1.6.2"}
s9yserendipity0.3
s9yserendipity0.4
s9yserendipity0.7
s9yserendipity0.7.1
s9yserendipity0.8
s9yserendipity0.8.1
s9yserendipity0.8.2
s9yserendipity0.8.3
s9yserendipity0.8.4
s9yserendipity0.8.5
s9yserendipity0.9
s9yserendipity0.9.1
s9yserendipity1.0
s9yserendipity1.0.1
s9yserendipity1.0.2
s9yserendipity1.0.3
s9yserendipity1.0.4
s9yserendipity1.1
s9yserendipity1.1.1
s9yserendipity1.1.2
s9yserendipity1.1.3
s9yserendipity1.1.4
s9yserendipity1.2
s9yserendipity1.2.1
s9yserendipity1.3
s9yserendipity1.3.1
s9yserendipity1.4
s9yserendipity1.4.1
s9yserendipity1.5.1
s9yserendipity1.5.2
s9yserendipity1.5.3
s9yserendipity1.5.4
s9yserendipity1.5.5
s9yserendipity1.6
s9yserendipity1.6.1

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.