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Low Public exploit CVE-2011-4340 EUVD-2011-4272GHSA-wvq5-72qp-grjw

Symphony CMS vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Published Feb 12, 2012 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Package: symphonycms/symphony-2 Ecosystem: Packagist

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the profile parameter to extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php, as demonstrated via requests to (a) the default URI, (b) about/, or (c) drafts/; or (2) the filter parameter in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php, as demonstrated via requests to (d) symphony/publish/comments or (e) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist symphonycms/symphony-2 < 2.2.4 2.2.4 GHSA-wvq5-72qp-grjw

References