VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2784

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Published 2016-05-26 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.7

Description

CMS Made Simple 2.x before 2.1.3 and 1.x before 1.12.2, when Smarty Cache is activated, allow remote attackers to conduct cache poisoning attacks, modify links, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted HTTP Host header in a request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
57%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39760 webapps php verified
Mickaël Walter · 2016-05-04

CMS Made Simple < 1.12.1 / < 2.1.3 - Web Server Cache Poisoning

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.5
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.6
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.7
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.0.8
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.1.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.1.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.1.3.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.1.4.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.2.5
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.3.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.4.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.5
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.5.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.5.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.5.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.5.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.5
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.6
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.7
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.8
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.9
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.6.10
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.7
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.7.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.8
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.8.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.8.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.4.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.4.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.9.4.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.10
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.10.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.10.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.10.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.2
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.2.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.3
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.4
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.5
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.6
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.7
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.8
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.9
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.10
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.11
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.12
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.11.13
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.12
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple1.12.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.0
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.0.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.0.1.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.1.1
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simple2.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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