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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2020-5842 EUVD-2020-26996GHSA-p258-72gh-7cxv

Codoforum 4.8.3 allows XSS in the user registration page: via the username field to the index.php?u=/user/register URI. The payload is, for…

Published Jan 7, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Codoforum 4.8.3 allows XSS in the user registration page: via the username field to the index.php?u=/user/register URI. The payload is, for example, executed on the admin/index.php?page=users/manage page.

Public exploits

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