VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-8774

medium
Published 2014-12-03 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in manager/index.php in MODX Revolution 2.x before 2.2.15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the context_key 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-35159 webapps php
Narendra Bhati · 2014-11-05

MODx CMS 2.2.14 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass / Reflected Cross-Site Scripting / Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
modxmodx_revolution2.0.0
modxmodx_revolution2.0.1
modxmodx_revolution2.0.3
modxmodx_revolution2.0.4
modxmodx_revolution2.0.5
modxmodx_revolution2.0.6
modxmodx_revolution2.0.7
modxmodx_revolution2.0.8
modxmodx_revolution2.1.0
modxmodx_revolution2.1.1
modxmodx_revolution2.1.2
modxmodx_revolution2.1.3
modxmodx_revolution2.1.4
modxmodx_revolution2.1.5
modxmodx_revolution2.2.0
modxmodx_revolution2.2.1
modxmodx_revolution2.2.2
modxmodx_revolution2.2.3
modxmodx_revolution2.2.4
modxmodx_revolution2.2.5
modxmodx_revolution2.2.6
modxmodx_revolution2.2.7
modxmodx_revolution2.2.8
modxmodx_revolution2.2.9
modxmodx_revolution2.2.10
modxmodx_revolution2.2.11
modxmodx_revolution2.2.12
modxmodx_revolution2.2.13
modxmodx_revolution2.2.14

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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