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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2014-5193 EUVD-2014-5091GHSA-gjwq-8q6q-xcjf

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…

Published Aug 7, 2014 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the category parameter. NOTE: the url parameter vector is already covered by CVE-2014-5082.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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