CVE-2014-2235
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Askbot before 0.7.49 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the question search form.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| askbot | askbot | {"endIncluding":"0.7.48"} | |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57163
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65885
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070852
- https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/876e3662ff6b78cc6241338c15e3a0cb49edf4e2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57163
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65885
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070852
- https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/876e3662ff6b78cc6241338c15e3a0cb49edf4e2
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.