CVE-2014-8690

medium

Published 2015-02-19 · 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 Exponent CMS before 2.1.4 patch 6, 2.2.x before 2.2.3 patch 9, and 2.3.x before 2.3.1 patch 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) PATH_INFO, the (2) src parameter in a none action to index.php, or the (3) "First Name" or (4) "Last Name" field to users/edituser.

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-36059 webapps php

Mayuresh Dani · 2015-02-12

Exponent CMS 2.3.1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`{"endIncluding":"2.1.4"}`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.2.0`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.2.1`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.2.2`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.2.3`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.3.0`
exponentcms	exponent_cms	`2.3.1`

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.