CVE-2012-2436
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or…
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Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an arbitrary parameter in a move or (2) minimize action to admin/admin_index.php; (3) the karma_username parameter to module.php in the karma module; (4) q_1_low, (5) q_1_high, (6) q_2_low, or (7) q_2_high parameter in a configure action to module.php in the captcha module; or (8) the edit parameter to module.php in the admin_language module.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 31 days later
· 31 days 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)
- 2.5% · top 15% 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)
- 53662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 49257 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2441 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- pliggcms-adminindex-xss(75834) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-18/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2440 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- pliggcms-multiple1-xss(75764) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 45431 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2452 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 53625 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg/trunk/modules/admin_language/admin_language_main.php?r1=2442&r2=2441&pathrev=2442 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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