CVE-2007-5112
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in session.cgi (aka the login page) in Google Urchin 5 5.7.03 and earlier allows remote attackers…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in session.cgi (aka the login page) in Google Urchin 5 5.7.03 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4713. NOTE: this can be leveraged to capture login credentials in some browsers that support remembered (auto-completed) passwords.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Urchin 5.7.x - 'session.cgi' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30606webapps, cgipublished 24 Sept 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 16% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument90.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 38578 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070823/xss-and-possible-information-disclosure-in-urchin/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070924 Google Urchin password theft madness (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/google-urchin-password-theft-madness (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/1283/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20071010 Vulnerabilities digest (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 3177 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://hackademix.net/2007/09/24/googhole-xss-pwning-gmail-picasa-and-almost-200k-customers/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 25788 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-5093 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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