CVE-2012-1469
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allow remote attackers and remote authenticated…
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- mitre
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allow remote attackers and remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) editor or (2) callback parameters to lib/pkp/lib/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/ibrowser.php in the iBrowser plugin, (3) authors[][url] parameter to index.php, or (4) Bio Statement or (5) Abstract of Submission fields to the stripUnsafeHtml function in lib/pkp/classes/core/String.inc.php.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8431 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- open-journal-articleid-xss(74228) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- open-journal-index-xss(74225) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 48449 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE-2.3.7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- open-journal-editor-xss(74227) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 80257 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23079 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 80255 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20120321 Multiple vulnerabilities in Open Journal Systems (OJS) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 48464 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 80256 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- open-journal-string-xss(74226) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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)
- 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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