CVE-2014-8539
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 Simple Email Form 1.8.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the mod_simpleemailform_field2_1 parameter to index.php.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| simple_email_form_project | simple_email_form | {"endIncluding":"1.8.5"} | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129171/Joomla-Simple-Email-Form-1.8.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534017/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71131
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23241
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129171/Joomla-Simple-Email-Form-1.8.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534017/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71131
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23241
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.